• Students enrolled in tutoring programs have lower drop-out and absentee rates. (Dept of Education).
• Over the last 25 years, 10 million students  have reached 12th grade without basic reading skills and 20 million without basic math skills. (William Bennett)
• After school programs are a major factor to reducing juvenile crime.
• Among industrialized  countries US is 25th in math and 21st  in science
• There are over 2000 schools where more than 40 percent of the kids do not graduate.
• 1.2 million kids leave school without a diploma each year.
• 68% of 8th graders can't read at grade level and most will not catch up.
• For each additional year of schooling, the odds that a student will someday commit a crime like murder or assault are reduced by almost one-third.
• The after school hours are the peak time for juvenile crime and experimentation with drugs, alcohol.
• Teens who do not participate in after school programs are nearly three times more likely to skip classes or use marijuana or other drugs; they are also more likely to drink alcohol, smoke cigarette.
• More than 28 million kids have parents who work outside the home.  (Source: U.S. Department of Labor)
• Parents themselves admit to regularly leaving more than 4 million middle school kids under the age of 13 to care for themselves for a few hours each week.

Research shows that youth who spend time with a caring adult mentor regularly for at least one year are:

1. 46% less likely than their peers to start using illegal drugs
2. 27% less likely to start drinking
3. 52% less likely than their peers to skip a day of school
4. 37% less likely to skip a class
5. More trusting of their parents or guardians 

Youth are five times more likely to graduate if they have a meaningful relationship with an adult.  (Michigan Dropout Prevention Summit 2008)