SFUSD Student Support Services Department

Welcome to Student Mentor Program

The San Francisco Unified School District’s Student Mentor Program strives to build students’ assets by matching youth with a caring adult at school. Mentoring is a research-validated practice that leads to school success, regular attendance and pro-social behavior. Our website is a resource for school employees and community-based volunteers interested in supporting the academic achievement and overall success of San Francisco youth through mentoring.

Grants Announced
We are pleased to announce that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has awarded The Student Mentor Program with two grants to enhance and expand school based mentoring in the district. These grants will help us expand services to engage even more youth in special and supportive relationships at a school. With this support SFUSD will match 750 students who are living in foster care or at risk of gang involvement with a adult who is trained to help students build resiliency through positive relationships.

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	“Make sure the mentor is a good listener and always helps you with problems. Make sure that if you and your mentor are having problems or if you are having problems, talk it out. Also make sure they have a good sense of humor. I appreciate my mentor Rombro as a friend, as a special person to talk to, and as a helper.” --Tony Dillard, former student of Aptos Middle School Tony Dillard: “Well if I got a 3.0 GPA, then Mr. Rombro said we can go to Red Robin and I did!” Ben Rombro: “Yeah, Tony more than doubled his GPA! I’m also looking forward to seeing Tony graduate on stage, and we are going to do a celebratory trip or activity for it.”
“It’s good for a teenager to have an adult who can just hear them out and not judge. Andre can say anything and he knows I’m won’t fall off a chair in shock.” --David Kaplan, mentor at Martin Luther King, Jr Middle School“ It keeps me motivated in school…. It helps to talk about things and get it off my chest, cuz then my mind is on school and I can keep my grades up.” --Andre Hilton, former student at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School
	“He took me to a basketball game and I rode BART for the first time. We talk a lot and have lunch everyday.” --Sikharin Jarunghit, Student, Everett Middle School
“We made chocolate chip cookies together…Then Ms. Lopez gave me the cookies to take home with me.”” -- Lesly Dzay, student at Paul Revere “I really enjoyed when Ms. Lopez took a bus with me to Union Square to see the trees last year during my Christmas break. We also saw the decorated windows and had lunch together. It was a great time of the year, and I really enjoyed it.”-- Yesenia Gomez, student at Paul Revere “I think it is very important to spend time with children in order to talk to them and to support them even if it is just… (a) small activity…. It is huge to them…..It is also important that if you have more than one mentee, try to make time to give them each separate time.” -- Carol Lopez, mentor at Paul Revere