Out and up
A relationship-first mentoring architecture. Life alumni walk with people who are trying to move out of limitation and up toward purpose, healing, and a next faithful step.
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The vision
College. A broken home. A first-generation path no one in the family has walked. Decision Tree Mentoring turns lived experience into a trustworthy guide. We pair a person at an important decision point with a mentor who has traveled a similar road — not as a rescuer, but as someone who can tell the truth, stay, and help them take the next step.
The gap of care
Schools and professions have alumni who can open doors. People navigating under-resourced communities, family rupture, recovery, or a first-generation path often have no equivalent. Ability is not the same as a navigable next step. Many people need a credible adult who has been there — and who will not decide the life for them.
The response
The Decision Tree process identifies a starting point, matches a mentee with a life alum who has walked a similar path, and moves through clear steps: assess, align, advance, and anchor. Mentoring is relational and practical — identity, faithful vision, goals, and ordinary next actions — with boundaries that keep the mentor from becoming therapist, parent, or rescuer.
What is distinctive
Mentors are matched by shared road, not merely shared demographics or career goals.
The work is not only escape from a hard place. It is movement toward purpose, belonging, and a durable next chapter.
Mentors help people see choices. They do not take the decision, the story, or the credit.
When someone comes through a hard passage, that story can become someone else’s pathway — with humility, not performance.
Name the starting point — the decision, the constraint, the next question worth asking.
Match with a life alum who has walked a similar road and can stay within clear bounds.
Walk a structured season of goals, honest conversation, and practical next steps.
Leave with identity, community, and enough clarity to keep moving when the formal match ends.
Development posture
Decision Tree is being formed as TDI’s broader mentoring Program — distinct from Project 28:12, which applies similar relational discipline to young men and skilled work. The two collaborate on mentor formation and boundaries without collapsing into one Program.
Mentors, churches, schools, and community partners can help map genuine need before anyone promises a match.
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