The Mentoring Circle: Supportive Relationships across Generations

January is mentoring month.

A whitehouse photo taken for former President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” mentoring program

January is Mentoring Month, January 17 International Mentoring Day — with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday a day of service. (January is also Human Trafficking Awareness Month, underscoring one risk of a lack of positive mentoring and other adult presences in a young person’s life.)