Mentoring & Partnership for Youth Development

Mentoring & Partnership for Youth Development (MPYD) is a nonprofit mentoring organization located inside historic John Muir High School in Pasadena, CA.

MPYD is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 at John Muir High School. Then Principal Eddie Newman, Ed.D, recognized that the behavior of the male student body contributed to a number of concerns such as low academic scores, violence and truancy. To help the students, Principal Newman recruited community leaders Tecumseh Shackelford, Gene Campbell, Velton Paggett, Johnnie Driver, Del Yarbroug  ...