An Investment of Time offers mentoring programs that help adolescents and young adults grow mentally, physically, spiritually, and financially through consistent, relationship-centered support. Each program follows a year-long roadmap that turns big goals into practical weekly and monthly steps youth can live out.
Middle School Mentoring (Grades 6–8)
- Focus on identity, confidence, and healthy routines while students are still forming habits and beliefs about themselves.
- Teach simple tools for naming feelings, managing emotions, handling peer pressure, and building a growth mindset.
- Introduce basic health habits (sleep, movement, nutrition) and wants vs. needs with small, doable challenges.
- Provide a safe, faith-informed space to talk about friendships, social media, and making wise choices at school and home.
High School Mentoring (Grades 9–12)
- Help teens clarify their values, set SMART goals, and build self-discipline in school, work, sports, and relationships.
- Practice stress management, time management, and conflict resolution so they can navigate real pressures and responsibilities.
- Discuss healthy boundaries, dating, online behavior, and being an example in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.
- Build practical money skills: Give–Save–Spend plans, saving for short-term goals, saying no to peer pressure to spend, and beginning generational wealth thinking.
Young Adult Mentoring (Ages 18–25)
- Support the transition into college, career, and independence with coaching on decisions, habits, and long-term vision.
- Explore purpose, calling, and career pathways by connecting strengths and interests to real opportunities and next steps.
- Reinforce healthy physical, spiritual, and emotional rhythms that sustain work, school, and relationships over time.
- Deepen financial literacy with basics of banking, debit vs. credit, budgeting for income, and planning for future stability and legacy.
- Mentors and mentees meet weekly during the first 8–12 weeks to build trust, routines, and clear goals, then at least four hours per month for the rest of the first year. (Need-based)
- 12-month calendar guides sessions through themes such as Identity and Mindset, Emotional Regulation and Healthy Rhythms, Relationships and Boundaries, Purpose and Career Awareness, Service and Community Impact, and Long-Term Vision and Legacy.
- Every relationship is anchored in a trauma-informed crisis response framework to ensure safety, support healing, and connect youth to appropriate community resources when needed.
- Stronger mindset: confidence, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and wise decision-making.
- Healthier habits: realistic routines for movement, sleep, and nutrition that support energy and focus.
- Deeper purpose: alignment between faith, values, and daily choices, with a clear sense of how they want to impact others.
- Practical money skills: budgeting, saving, giving, and viewing time and money as investments instead of just things to spend.
Mentally:
Developing a strong, healthy, and disciplined mind so adolescents and young adults can think clearly, manage emotions, and make wise decisions. It includes teaching strategies for focus, self-awareness, emotional regulation, positive self-talk, and problem-solving so they can handle stress, peer pressure, and life transitions with resilience and confidence as they invest their time wisely.
Romans 12:2 – “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God.”
Physically:
Guiding adolescents and young adults to care for their bodies through healthy habits that support long-term wellbeing and energy. It emphasizes movement, nutrition, sleep, and self-respect for their physical health, so they have the strength, discipline, and stamina to pursue their goals, show up fully in school, work, and relationships, and model a lifestyle of stewardship over their bodies.
Proverbs 23:20–21 – “Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat… for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.”
Spiritually:
Helping adolescents and young adults connect to a sense of purpose, values, and faith that guides their choices and character. It involves mentoring them to align their actions with their beliefs, practice reflection and gratitude, and live with integrity and authenticity so they become grounded, hopeful, and anchored in something greater than themselves as they navigate life’s challenges.
1 Timothy 4:12 – “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.”
Financially:
Building practical money management skills and healthy attitudes toward resources so adolescents and young adults can create stability and freedom for themselves and their future families. It includes mentoring in budgeting, saving, giving, planning, and wise decision-making around income and spending. Hence, they learn to see time and money as investments, not just things to spend, and are equipped to break cycles of financial struggle and build generational strength.
Proverbs 13:22 – “A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children.