First Serve’s unique mentoring program employs exceptional teens and young adults from within the Banner Lake community to serve as mentors to young children from within their own neighborhood, while providing those same mentors with crucial resources to help them elevate their own life trajectory.

Each mentor is given access to post secondary success coaching, personal and professional development training, DCF accreditation, scholarships, and future job opportunities, as well as access to ongoing support in their future endeavors. While developing their unique gifts and talents, these young leaders work actively each day to provide necessary support to the BLAST program, providing children with caring role models who invest in their lives by helping them complete homework assignments, practice reading, develop their motor skills through sports and exercise, express their creativity, and develop life skills such as conflict resolution and making healthy lifestyle choices.