Every Child Has the Potential to Lead
MentorKids USA provides free year-round mentoring, after-school,
and summer programs for K–12 students through Promise Neighborhoods across Phoenix.
For many students, access, consistency, and opportunity can stand in the way of growth. MentorKids USA exists to help close that gap through trusted relationships, academic support, spiritual growth, and leadership development.
Building Leaders Who Build Leaders.
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Long-Term Investment. Transformative Impact.
The beauty of MentorKids is that our students don’t simply move through the program — they grow into leaders who help build up the students coming behind them.
MentorKids USA serves K–12 students year-round through Promise Neighborhoods across Phoenix, providing free after-school and summer programs focused on academic success, spiritual growth, leadership development, and consistent mentoring relationships.
We believe the key to creating transformative impact in a community lies in long-term investment in the children and families who live there. That is why our model is built for consistency. Students are known by name, surrounded by trusted adults, and supported year after year as they grow in confidence, character, and purpose.
As students progress, they are invited into greater levels of responsibility. By high school, many are ready to become iLEADers — paid student leaders who mentor and tutor younger students, receive advanced leadership training and academic support, and serve their communities through outreach events and projects.
At MentorKids, students do not age out. They move up.
This is what we mean by Building Leaders Who Build Leaders: a long-term investment in students, families, and neighborhoods that strengthens communities from the inside out.
Building Leaders Who Build Leaders.
“The Promise Neighborhood model allows us to invest in building young leaders who engage with their community for positive change and mentor our younger students to take their place when they graduate.”
— Aaron Parrott, MentorKids Executive Director
