Step 1
Choice‑Based Matching
We partner locally, identify connection‑ready youth and Mentoring Families, certify families, then host discovery to let youth choose their match.
Don’t Go Alone
Lives change when someone stays. We’ve seen hundreds of young adults move from isolation to thriving—graduating, building families, and living successful lives—because they were given the dignity to choose trust and the security of a Mentoring Family committed for life.
Who We Serve
For Young Adults (18–24)
You don’t have to navigate adulthood alone. At Don’t Go Alone, you choose a Mentoring Family you can trust—one that feels right today and will still be there years from now.
Start My Match
For Mentoring Families
Be the steady presence a young adult can count on. We’ll equip and support you with our Redemptive Connection approach to build a safe, lifelong relationship that helps a young person to thrive.
Apply to Mentor
For Potential Affiliate Partners
Bring the Don’t Go Alone program to your community. Launch with our proven model, comprehensive training, and ongoing support to create lifelong connections that prevent poverty and homelessness in your community.
Explore Partnership
For Community Partners
Case managers, Independent & Transitional Living programs, schools, justice partners, housing resource agencies—partner with us to make warm referrals and ensure youth receive consistent, relational support beyond 18.
Refer a Youth
The DGA Model
Step 2
Redemptive Connection Support
Trauma‑informed training, the L.I.F.E. Guide, and ongoing Relationship Management help connections start strong and endure.
Step 3
Wrap‑Around & Empowerment
Case management, life skills, education & career support, mental health referrals, and enrichment—tailored to each young adult.
Impact & Outcomes
Justice Involvement
Young men connected to a Mentoring Family rarely experience arrest or incarceration compared to national outcomes for youth navigating young adulthood alone.
Unplanned Pregnancy & Parenting Stability
Young women connected to a Mentoring Family experience far fewer unplanned pregnancies and, for those already pregnant or parenting, far greater stability and support for maintaining care & custody of their children.
Education & Work
Connected youth consistently pursue high school completion, post-secondary education, skilled trades, and stable employment.
Housing & Life Stability
Youth connected through Don’t Go Alone experience fewer crises and greater long-term stability than peers who exit foster care without a family.
When youth experience belonging, outcomes change.
Young adults connected to a Mentoring Family are more likely to complete education, maintain stable housing and work, avoid justice involvement, and build healthy families and peer communities.
Our model keeps relationships at the center—because belonging is what sustains every other outcome.
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Proof & Resources
Real people with life-changing results
Michael
Matched