The Arthur Project

Our mission is to create a replicable model that professionalizes traditional mentoring by using clinically-focused mentors to work intensively with youth and their families throughout middle school. Through the science of relationship-based learning, we foster a profound sense of mattering that expands opportunities in the lives of children. Co-founded by speaker, author, and youth advocate, Liz Murray, The Arthur Project takes an innovative approach to the field of mentoring, offering a new model inspired by Murrays own unlikely change in life trajectory, from homeless youth to Harvard graduate. A core tenet of The Arthur Projects approach is that all successful youth intervention relies on the combination of effective relationships with caring adults, and the strategic development of self-efficacy in youth. The Arthur Project mentors are graduate social work students who are clinicians-in-training. We currently run our mentor programs with 180 students in 6th through 8th grade...