Level Up: Future-Focused In-School Mentoring

Level Up:  Large-scale mentoring program that utilizes paid mentors embedded full-time in middle schools. 

  • Created in response to the needs expressed by principals, counselors, and administrators for trained positive adult role models to provide consistent and direct mentoring for students who are exhibiting classroom disruptions, student conflicts and other behaviors at unprecedented levels. 
  • Designed to serve 100 students per grade at partner middle schools through small group and 1:1 mentoring. 
  • Partner schools: Jean Childs Young, Price and Bunche Middle Schools and H.J. Russell West End Academy in APS; Lithonia Middle School in DeKalb County. 
  • We are currently serving 857 students at all five schools. Over the next five years, we expect to expand Level Up to serve 2700 students at nine schools.

Current Partner Schools:

Ralph J. Bunche Middle School

Lithonia Middle School

Price Middle School

Russell West End Academy

Young Middle School

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