Learning and Leading by Helping
Root 2 Rise
We work with schools to help high school students become academic tutors and behavioral mentors in elementary schools, where they become confident and eager to learn — and lead. Younger students welcome these young “teachers.”
Since 2017, more than 350 Tutor-Mentors in elementary schools in Oregon and Wisconsin, have inspired almost 7,000 students.
Hope Through Helping
Click on these photos to learn how these students discovered a better future with Root 2 Rise.
Students Inspiring Students
Tutor-Mentors and younger students inspire each other. Everyone benefits.
Root 2 Rise Thrive
Career and educational support for our former students ages 18-26.
Thrive helped Jaden Caine (above), Damari Thomas and Armari Tucker.
Principals and counselors
Principal Cynthia Bell Jimenez (above) says Root 2 Rise is “transformational.” Principal Rich Peters and counselors with the Marshall School District agree.
Parents and caregivers.
Ashley Moncrief’s two daughters had Tutor-Mentors in their classes. The mother of Andrew Cassiday appreciates the opportunities that her son received as a Tutor-Mentor. The Ayala family shares their experience.
Supporting our most vulnerable youth using practices recommended by the National Gang Center to discourage gang involvement.
“I’ve struggled with addiction and made some poor choices in the past. Fortunately, I found help and advice from Root 2 Rise Thrive and elsewhere when I needed it.”
Luis Rodriguez
“Root 2 Rise held me to a high standard. Many of my friends just went with the crowd, and many of them are now dead, in jail, or homeless.”
Joseph Thigpen, Jr.
