SMARTS is an innovative peer mentoring program that is targeted to a severely underserved group of young people — those with learning and attention difficulties such as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD).

The SMARTS Program is unique in that younger students are paired with high school and college aged mentors who are successfully overcoming the effects of their own learning difficulties. Mentors share strategies to manage the academic and social challenges that they themselves face.

SMARTS mentees, like many students with learning and attention difficulties, struggle with feelings of loneliness, often believing that they have no one to turn to who truly understand them. SMARTS provides these students with everyday examples of successful older students who have overcome their attention and learning differences through hard work and persistence.

SMARTS creates a community that fosters strategy use, self confidence and resilience.

	SMARTS Boston The SMARTS Boston program helps struggling students from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds to achieve academic and life success. The curriculum focuses on teaching executive function strategies through mentoring to help students in underperforming high schools to succeed.
	Community SMARTS The Community SMARTS pogram is unique in that younger students are paired with high school and college aged mentors who are successfully managing their own learning difficulties. Mentors share strategies to manage the academic and social challenges that they themselves face.