MORE is a school based mentoring program that focuses on giving youth in grades four through eight opportunities to form positive relationships with caring adults, build skills, exercise leadership and help their communities.

Program activities are facilitated by an on-site manager while caring adult volunteers and mentees engage in academic and youth development activities for the purpose of friendship and cultural enrichment.

Does mentoring work?

The mentors provided through programs such as MORE are able to achieve powerful results for the youth they work with. Prominent studies of mentoring programs found that mentored youth:

          -  were 46% less likely than their peers to start using illegal drugs

          -  were 27% less likely to initiate alcohol use

          -  were 38% less likely to engage in violence

          -  skipped school 52% less

          -  decreased lying to their parents by 37%