National CARES Mentoring Movement

Welcome to the Official Web Site of Los Angeles CARES Mentoring Movement

Los Angeles CARES is part of the National Cares Mentoring Movement (NCMM). NCMM's mission is to create a highly visible and effective national mentoring campaign targeting the Black community. The specific goals of the Los Angeles CARES Mentoring Movement are to bring guidance to the lives of youngsters by pairing them with organizations that offer mentoring services and programs and to significantly increase the pool of caring Black mentors.

The Los Angeles CARES Mentoring Movement (LACMM) is a call to action to every able and caring Black adult to help end the crisis in our community by mentoring our young people who are at risk and by recruiting other caring adults to mentor. LACMM does not offer mentoring services; instead, we encourage local leaders to raise awareness of the need and benefits of mentoring, as well as recruit mentors for organizations that provide mentoring and other youth-support services.

We target the needs of Black youngsters, who are greatly overrepresented on long waiting lists for mentors. Unfortunately, Black adult mentors are grossly underrepresented as volunteers for the youngsters in the Black community. LACMM works to fill the pipelines of local organizations with caring Black men and women.

Due to the unfortunate underrepresentation of Black adults who volunteer as mentors for the youth in their communities, Black youth are grossly overrepresented on long waiting lists for mentors. LACMM targets the needs of these youth and works to fill the pipelines of local organizations with caring men and women.

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