1. Commit to Mentoring - Locate mentoring opportunities in your area and sign up to help our youngsters, click here.

There are various ways you can mentor:

1. One-to-one/traditional mentoring (one adult to one youngster)
2. Group mentoring (one adult to up to 15 young people)
3. Tag team mentoring-many adults working with a small or large group of youngsters
4. Peer mentoring-a caring youngster guiding another young person

2. Join the FLORIDA CARES INITIATIVE AND STATEWIDE STEERING COMMITTEE
in your locale. For more information on Committee Structure, click here!

The Florida Cares Initiative is focused on providing mentoring programs/opportunities for our most vulnerable African-American youngsters. We encourage mentoring, faith-based, civic, professional
and community organizations with programs serving our young people to register their programs with MENTOR’s National Mentoring Database.

Part of the Florida Cares Mentoring Movement is to ensure "Community City Circles" are successfully formed in every metropolitan city in Florida to help us keep mentors engaged, and to turn failing schools into top-tier learning environments for our children.

By registering your program in the National Mentoring Database, thousands of volunteers have access to information about volunteer and mentoring opportunities with your program. Please register your mentoring program at http://www.mentoring.org/register.

Registration is free and will take less than ten minutes to complete. Registered programs are required to update their listings quarterly and respond to volunteer referrals within two business days.

Sign up for the Blacksonville.com Enewsletter to connect and work with other men and women in your area who are committed to winning social justice for our youngsters who are suffering and losing ground.

3. Tell a Friend
E-mail at least five friends and tell them to join the Florida Cares movement and become a mentor (perhaps you can form a mentoring group or tag team). We are especially in need of strong Black men. At Big Brothers Big Sisters of America alone 12,000 African-American boys wait to be matched with a male mentor.