Friday Night Live Mentoring (FNLM) provides young people with meaningful, supportive relationships that strengthen their resilience and empower them to navigate life’s challenges. FNLM pairs high school mentors with middle school protégés in a year-long, peer-to-peer partnership designed to cultivate leadership, personal growth, and mutual engagement.

FNLM Benefits:

Provides leadership opportunities
Increases civic engagement
Supports social emotional learning
Eases transition from middle school to high school

Provides academic support
Increases healthy behaviors
Increases self-esteem
Expands involvement in positive extracurricular activities

FNLM Components:

Matches a high school mentor with a middle school protégé.
Uses a recruitment, application, screening, and training process for mentors.
Includes mutually beneficial, structured, weekly mentoring sessions.
Provides rigorous evaluation, documenting participant development.
Provides lessons on preventing drug, alcohol, and tobacco use and peer pressure.

Empowering Youth, Strengthening Communities, Creating Change

FNLM Fact Sheet