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The National CARES Mentoring Movement rises into a powerful new era. After an extensive national search, we are proud to welcome Renee Daniel Flager as the first president in our organization’s history.

Children between the ages of five and 12 years old are dying by suicide at twice the rate of their White peers. In 2019 those words stole our breaths.

At National CARES, we have long been working to instill wellness and healing in the lives of our children struggling with the life-shredding impacts of centuries-long poverty, and to support the adults who surround them—but this? We knew then that we had to do much more.

The National CARES Mentoring Movement is pioneering new paths forward that enhance the education of students in marginalized communities and under-resourced schools.