LEAD’s vision is to eliminate the 9th grade dropout rate in Harris County by helping middle school students create a vision for personal success and then build a solid foundation to achieve it.

We are a community preparing Houston’s at-risk middle school students for leadership and success in high school and beyond through experiential programs that include an in-school character curriculum, one-to-one mentorship, community service, and summer wilderness adventures.

LEAD provides weekly classroom content that cultivates our LEADer’s senses of Vision, Empathy & Tenacity as the foundation for opportunity and success in high school and beyond – be it college, military service, joining the family business, learning a trade, or another form of mindful, meaningful citizenship. We partner with university honors colleges, churches, and corporations that seek to serve youth as mentors twice a month. We take summer adventure trips in other parts of the country that are full of joy and struggle and growth. We go together, we grow together.