Career Mentors for Metro Detroit High School Students

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We empower Metro Detroit high school students to achieve their career dreams and become positive influences in their families, communities, and workplaces. Our volunteer career mentors participate with students in one-hour sessions, coaching them through the program and providing positive encouragement. Learn more by visiting our website.

Each session starts with a staff member who facilitates a brief lesson. Then career mentors and students participate in a fun and structured activity that reinforces the day's lesson. All sessions are held at the student's school, during the school day, and with teachers, staff members, and other students and career mentors present. Topics include things like career exploration, life and job-readiness skills development, strengths and weaknesses identification and analysis, perseverance, and academic and career planning. Our students attend high schools in Detroit, Harper Woods, Hazel Park, Warren, and Sterling Heights.

Our program begins in November with two or three, one-hour sessions per month until the conclusion of the program in May. We train all career mentors prior to the program year begining and host a second training at the midway point of the year. Additional support is provided before, during, and after every session.

The Winning Futures program was established in 1994 and has since impacted more than 50,500 students and awarded more than $2.2 million in scholarships. Our award-winning program is structured and based on an evidence-based curriculum. Researchers at the University of Michigan deemed the program statistically significant with an equitable impact on all students regardless of race, economic level, or gender.