Ages 13 to 18

The Young Men's Leadership Program

Ages 13 to 18

FORGED

The Young Men's Leadership Program

The Engine of Innovation

FORGED holds young men through the heat and pressure of adolescence and turns scattered survival energy into focused, purposeful momentum, through brotherhood, honest conversation and real engineering challenges.

What FORGED builds

Three pillars for young men

Every session is built around the questions young men are already asking, in a room where it is safe to ask them.

Identity and Healthy Masculinity

Navigating the cultural pressures of manhood.

Mental Health

Providing margin and vocabulary for the internal adolescent experience.

Peer Accountability

Creating a brotherhood where positive academic and life choices are the social baseline.

How it runs

Cohort sessions led by trained coaches

Small groups, steady rhythm, and coaches who know how to reach young men.

Bi-weekly90 minute cohort sessions

8 to 15young men in each cohort

Certified coachestrained in trauma-informed male engagement

The Forge

STEM as the applied proving ground

We do not bolt on technology classes. We use robotics and complex engineering challenges as the pressure cooker that tests FORGED leadership principles in real time.

Technical ability is a tool to solve community problems, not just a pathway to personal wealth.

Resilience

Learned through failed code

Learned through failed code and iterative hardware design.

Brotherhood and Conflict Resolution

Forged under pressure

Forged through high-stress team engineering competitions.

Purpose Clarification

Skill with a reason

Discovering that technical ability is a tool to solve community problems, not just a pathway to personal wealth.

The roadmap

From first session to scholarship

FORGED sits in the middle of a ten-year scholarship roadmap that begins with RISING and ends at the university door.

Years 1 to 4 (RISING)Establishing the baselineAcademic pride and emotional regulation.
Year 5 (The Bridge)Activating logic and spatial reasoningThe Initiation rite and the Logic Bootcamp.
Years 6 to 8 (FORGED Foundations)Building a portfolioComplex team engineering projects and community service hours.
Year 9 (FORGED Advanced)Preparing for the next stepFAFSA prep, college visits and scholarship essay drafting, drawing on the identity he has built.
Year 10 (The Outcome)Entering university debt-freeCarrying both technical strength and unshakable character.

The culmination

The Legacy Statement

To graduate FORGED, each 18-year-old stands before his cohort and community and delivers his personal Legacy Statement: a declaration of his values, his vision and his commitment.

The Shift

From recipient to contributor

He moves from being a recipient of investment to joining the Legacy Collective, the SR-Global national alumni network.

The Loop

The cycle turns

He is positioned as a virtual mentor for the 8-year-old boys just entering RISING. The cycle of disadvantage is broken, and the cycle of legacy begins.

National scale, local soul

A digital-first hub with a local heart

The SRGMI digital learning platform keeps the curriculum consistent in every zip code, without the cost of buildings. A boy in rural Mississippi can reach advanced robotics instruction taught virtually by a tech-partner engineer in Silicon Valley.

A community-based partner provides the physical oversight, the safe room and the trusted local co-facilitator.

Uncompromised technical instruction, paired with deep, culturally responsive local mentorship.

The pathway

One path, ten years, one generation at a time

FORGED is the engine in the middle of the path.

Ages 8 to 12

RISING

The Boys Mentorship Program. Identity and emotional baseline.

Ages 12 to 13

The Catalyst Chasm

The Graduation Bridge. Transfer of responsibility.

Ages 13 to 18

FORGED

The Young Men's Leadership Program. Peer accountability and STEM application.

Age 18

The Scholarship Threshold

The Legacy Collective. Outcomes and generational return.

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Registration

Register for RISING or FORGED

Boys aged 8 to 12 join RISING. Young men aged 13 to 18 join FORGED. We place each participant by age, so you only need to complete one form. A parent or guardian must complete it for every participant.

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