Mentoring Today is a 501(c)(3) organization.
Mentoring
We match our youth with a one-on-one volunteer mentor.  The mentor offers critical support
during the youth's stay in the juvenile facility and throughout his re-entry into the community.

Mentoring Today is now partnering with American University's Washington College of Law to
provide youth at New Beginnings Youth Development Center with caring, committed mentors.  
Our mentors are members of Students United for Youth Justice, a student organization that
recruits law students dedicated to serving the youth in DC's juvenile justice system.
Advocacy
Mentoring Today’s staff attorneys advocate for mentees to receive the education, employment,
housing, and mental health services they need, while also fighting instances of systemic
injustice.
Our mentors are superheroes!
2309 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., SE  •  Washington, DC  20020
(202) 678-9001 (office)  •  (202) 678-9005 (fax)  •  info@mentoringtoday.org
Family Engagement
Behind every mentee is a family, and Mentoring Today strives to incorporate that family into all of
our services.  We reach out to the families of our youth to help caregivers understand the re-entry
process and better participate in their child’s re-entry services.
What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore--
And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

                         --Langston Hughes
"Mentoring Today has recruited
diverse, committed mentors that
volunteer their time to engage,
inspire, and motivate
incarcerated males, a
population that is too often
overlooked."   
    - Fair Chance, Washington, DC