America’s Young Gentlemen Mentoring Program was designed in 2005 to provide developmental strategies for young men from 5th to 12th grade; the program has 45 intense training activities including Martial Arts, all of which work in harmony to develop the core skills needed to advance our mentees determination and abilities to succeed in their overall development.

AYGMP has incorporated some of the proven learning activities used by Mr. Sherman Rutledge Jr. over the past 30 years, the developmental strategies work to strengthen all aspects of our young men’s mental, social and physical development as they transition into their next journey in life. The training material is the result of Mr. Rutledge’s successful and miraculous recover as a firefighter who was electrocuted by 193,000 volts as a young firefighter and survived ones worst nightmare.

Young men who become mentees in AYGMP will be provided with 3 hours of intense training each week, they will also receive two sessions on two separate days of on-line training in which they are expected to complete the on-line training and submit their results to Mr. Rutledge. If a mentee doesn't’t have a home computer alternative methods will be provided for the mentee to complete their assignment.

The intense demands on our students today to succeed academically in our highly technical world will only get tougher each year. It must be identified and accepted by each mentee that their academic success is dependent upon their determination and discipline to accept the challenges, AYGMP introduces new and innovative methods to helping our young men succeed, it is our mission to introduce developmental strategies that reshape the method in which our mentees view and accept their inherent gifts, talents and intelligence.

AYGMP has a development period for our mentees which is 16 weeks; this period is designed to provide our mentees with an intense training period, one which introduces self-regulated study to help our mentees understand they will succeed in life by taking the personal initiative and finding ways to overcome life’s challenges. After the first 16 weeks our mentees can remain in the AYGMP till they graduate from high school.

Because of the intense developmental initiatives built into AYGMP and the Martial Arts training, a cost per month to become a member of America’s Young Gentlemen Mentoring Program has been set at $50.00; this cost pays for all the printed material, special on-line training, Martial Arts training equipment and time spent by Mr. Sherman Rutledge Jr. working with his mentees not only during scheduled training hours, but as needed by his mentees in their development.