The Girls Quest Mentor Program provides positive female role models and strong support structures to motivated teenage girls who are ready to explore who they are and discover their community at large. Girls attending SEED in 2006, between ages 12-17, are eligible to participate in our Mentor Program. The program launched in 2000 as a means of providing teenage girls with year-round support networks during the challenging teenage years.

Selected professional women are carefully screened and then matched by our Director of the Mentor Program with the most compatible girls. The program is a year-long commitment between the mentor and mentee. Each month, mentors and mentees spend between six and eight hours together, participating in fun and enriching activities throughout the New York metropolitan area. Activities range from visiting museums, seeing a Broadway play, bike riding, ice skating, bowling, and helping with homework, to tasting a variety of ethnic foods or exploring new neighborhoods.

As both get to know one another and build their friendship, the mentors have an opportunity to share their life experiences and the mentee has a chance to learn from someone they can relate to about life, how to handle difficult situations, and how to prepare for their future goals.

Mentors often find the program to be far more then a chance "to give back" and have said the relationships they've developed have brought as much change and positive impact to their lives as to their mentees.