Every Student Matters.
Your generosity tells students that they matter and that their futures are worth investing in. Help us cross the finish line by donating to our end of the year giving campaign. A gift to Restored For More helps make our tutoring, mentoring, and enrichment programs possible.
You Were Made For More
Restored For More is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that exists to help youth from at-risk communities in the St. Louis metro area through tutoring and mentoring. We send tutors and mentors into schools and after school programs to empower youth with the skills they need to break cycles of poverty, crime, and addiction- skills that will support them on their path to success as they transition from youth to young adults.
Our Purpose
“This generation needs hope. If you have a vision for your life, you will move towards that. It motivates you and helps you to rise up. When young people don’t have vision that’s when they get into trouble, and that’s what’s happening with this generation, they are struggling with mental and emotional depression, and they don’t have a motivation to succeed in school because they don’t believe they can . Everything we do at Restored For More is to help young people get a vision for their life and help them to succeed. We want to put this hope in them.”
Pastor David Turner (Founder, Expansion Church STL)
Our Mission
Our mission is to see individuals, families, and cities economically and relationally lifted in the St. Louis area by partnering with local schools to provide additional academic support through volunteer tutors and mentors, hosting after school programs that both support academics but also extra curricular interests, and finally connecting youth to local mentors and professionals who will both coach and support youth on their path to college and/or career.
Our Programs
Linking Arms is our local school support program where we recruit and provide trained volunteers to go into schools and after school programs and work with kids and youth who need additional support in literacy.
Launch Pad is our after school program designed to provide middle school students with academic support, mentoring and engaging enrichment activities like music, step, sports, and art to help youth find, discover, and develop their interests.
The Lift-Off Program will provide high-school youth with a 1:1 mentor who will provide support to access college opportunities and financial support. Mentors can also connect youth with a professional as they prepare for trade school or the workforce. (Launching: TBD)
Why Our Work Matters
Only nineteen percent of schools in the St. Louis metro area have 50% or more of their students meeting state standards in reading and math. Schools where students are not meeting standards are struggling to prepare students to be successful in life. We want to come alongside and support schools, families, and young people in the St. Louis metro area to be successful and find purpose.
statistics from st. Louis-mo.gov
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