Our Mentor program exists to provide neighborhood students in Pasadena an 
opportunity to rise above the challenges of their environment to become college-educated, responsible citizens of our community. By establishing mentoring relationships with positive role models, we focus on students at a convictional level, which will bring about marked changes in a student’s identity, and in turn affect their value system bringing about a positive change in their behavior and lifestyle. We work in partnership with the STARS tutoring program, Pasadena Unified School District, Lake Avenue Church, and other existing programs and ministries in our area to better communicate and bring about change in the lives of our students.
Demographic we serve:
The Mentoring program was created to provide neighborhood students in Northwest Pasadena an opportunity rise above the challenges of their environment to become college-educated and responsible citizens of their community. Sixty students ranging in age between 10 and 19 years are currently served by Mentoring, most coming from middle and 
high schools with academic proficiency ratings that are among the lowest in California. LACF’s neighborhood has an estimated 6,161 youths, ages 5-19 years, per square mile. According to the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD)[1] of approximately 22,000 students in PUSD, an nearly two-thirds live below the Federal Poverty Level resulting in over 14,000 students who are eligible for free or discounted lunch at school. Alarmingly, our experience is that an estimated 50 percent of the students in our neighborhood will drop out of high school, at best leaving them in a workplace that is already filled with the working poor.
[1] Pasadena Unified School District; Demographic profile taken in the 2004/2005 school year. www.pusd.us
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