Silver Lining Mentoring Inc

Learn & earn is an intensive life skills development curriculum, during which youth, their mentors, and slm staff meet weekly for two hours to work on skills such as budgeting, resume-writing, banking, financial literacy, interview skills and more. Youth earn a stipend for each curriculum component they successfully complete allowing youth to build assets to support their transition to adulthood. With this earned money youth have paid rent, college tuition, and purchased laptops for schoolwork and professional clothing, meeting critical needs for adulthood.

Silver lining routinely receives inquiries from organizations nationwide seeking to learn how to support young people in foster care. In response to this demand, the silver lining institute (sli) was launched in late 2019. Sli provides customized training and technical assistance to other youth-serving organizations with the goal of increasing access to high quality mentoring for youth in foster care. The institute also engages in thought leadership and field building work to educate stakeholders about the uniquely critical role that mentoring relationships play in healthy development for youth in foster care.