LIFE LESSONS, MENTORSHIP & SUMMER ADVENTURES
Teaching vision, empathy & tenacity to youth in middle school – when it matters most.
THE VISION
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.
THE MISSION
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.
THE WORK
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.
VISION
“ONE DAY, I WILL…”
From 6th to 8th grade, the LEAD character curriculum is facilitated once a week during the academic year by LEAD trainers and volunteer mentors.
Empathy
SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE | SHARED EXPERIENCE
LEADers execute community service projects, working side by side to positively impact the city of Houston.
TENACITY
DETERMINATION | PERSEVERANCE
Each summer LEADers experience a week-long wilderness adventure, giving them the opportunity to live out the character growth learned during the academic year.
Join the growing family of LEAD Mentors.
letting everyone achieve dreams
“The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.”
Joseph Le Conte
“The great hope of society is individual character.”
William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing