Blackburn Mentoring offers one-on-one mentoring and coaching for teens 13 and up, college students and young adults, by video anywhere in Georgia and in person in Los Angeles, and has been mentoring since 2014. The first step is a free 20 minute intro call; after that, you are matched with a mentor within 2 business days.

Best for:

A teen who will listen to another adult on school and plans more readily than to a parent
A student heading into a big step, such as senior year or the first year of college
A young adult building routines around work, money and independence
Busy or rural households where getting to an office every week is not realistic

Families, students and young adults anywhere in Georgia can work with a dedicated Blackburn mentor by video. Georgia is entirely on Eastern time, three hours ahead of our team in Los Angeles, and every session is scheduled on your clock. That works the same in Buckhead, Savannah, a North Georgia mountain town or a farm community in South Georgia.

Metro Atlanta and everywhere else

Metro Atlanta holds more than half of Georgia’s people, spread across a huge, car-dependent region: the city itself, Buckhead and Midtown, Decatur, Sandy Springs, Marietta, Alpharetta and suburbs that stretch far up GA-400 and I-85. Atlanta traffic is famous for a reason, and a cross-town trip at rush hour can take longer than the session itself.

Outside Atlanta, Georgia is large and varied:

Savannah and the coast, with one of the country’s busiest container ports, tourism and the Golden Isles.
Augusta, on the South Carolina line, with health care, a large Army installation and a growing cyber sector.
Athens, a college town with a strong music scene.
Columbus and Macon, regional centers in west and middle Georgia.
North Georgia mountains and lakes, and South Georgia farm country, where towns are small and far apart.

An economy built on movement

Georgia’s economy runs on getting people and goods from one place to another. Atlanta’s airport is one of the busiest in the world, the Port of Savannah moves a huge volume of cargo, and logistics and distribution employ many people. Atlanta hosts the headquarters of many large companies and a major cluster in payments and financial technology. Film and television production grew into a major industry. Manufacturing, including automotive and battery plants, is expanding, and agriculture remains essential: poultry, peanuts, pecans, cotton and the famous onions.

For young adults, Atlanta is a magnet, drawing graduates from across the Southeast. A first job in a big, spread-out city brings its own challenges: long commutes, a new social circle and the cost of living alone. See the first job after college.

How students move through school here

Most Georgia students attend county public school systems, some of which are very large, along with city systems, charter schools, and a substantial number of independent and religious schools, especially in metro Atlanta. After high school, the state’s public university system includes research universities, comprehensive and regional universities and state colleges, and a separate technical college system offers career programs statewide. Georgia also has well-known private colleges and a number of historically Black colleges and universities, many of them in Atlanta.

A lottery-funded merit scholarship encourages many students to stay in state, and plenty do. Others leave for neighboring states or farther, and Atlanta’s colleges draw students from across the country.

Where a mentor makes a difference

For high schoolers

Long commutes, big schools and busy activity calendars make it easy for a capable student to fall behind quietly. A weekly session gives them a plan they built, and a parent or guardian is involved from the intro call through regular updates. See mentoring for high school students.

For college students

Keeping grades up to stay eligible for a scholarship, choosing a major and managing time on a big campus are all things a mentor can help with week to week. See mentoring for college students.

For young adults and professionals

Career direction, money and a life that is not swallowed by the commute. See young adult mentoring.

Pages for areas in Georgia

Parents can start with our page for families. For the format, see online mentoring; for other states, see mentoring by state.

The rhythm of school and early careers in Georgia

Many Georgia districts start classes in early August, so summer ends while it is still sweltering, and the first weeks of school overlap with preseason practices and marching band. Fall Fridays belong to high school football, spring coats cars and porches in yellow pine pollen across much of the state, and coastal families keep an eye on hurricane season. In South Georgia, the farm calendar still sets the pace for many households, with planting and harvest drawing teenagers into family work.

In metro Atlanta, a teen’s first real independence often means learning to drive on I-285 or GA-400, and suburbs like Johns Creek, Suwanee, Kennesaw, Roswell and Peachtree City have large, competitive high schools. Early careers frequently begin in logistics and distribution, health care, payments and financial technology, film and television production, manufacturing and the trades, and a lot of film and event work is freelance, with long days followed by quiet weeks. Rents in and around Atlanta have risen, so plenty of graduates live with parents in the suburbs while commuting into the city, and families in smaller towns often watch their children leave for Atlanta and wonder whether they will come back.

Situations Georgia families and young adults often navigate

A newly licensed sixteen-year-old juggling school, a part-time job and a long suburban drive.
A South Georgia student considering a technical college program through dual enrollment while still in high school.
A young adult on film or event crews whose income and hours swing from one month to the next.
A graduate living at home in the suburbs while working in Midtown or Buckhead and trying to save for a place of their own.
A family that relocated to metro Atlanta for work, with a teen starting at a much larger school than before.

Georgia is entirely on Eastern time, and every video session is set on your local clock; face-to-face sessions are offered only in Los Angeles. The lottery-funded HOPE program supports both university and technical college students, and its rules change, so verify the details on Georgia’s official student finance site and read state merit scholarships and our dual enrollment guide. Young adults with unpredictable work schedules may like building a routine around long hours. Area pages: Atlanta, North Atlanta and Savannah.

Common questions

What time are sessions for clients in Georgia?

All sessions are in Eastern time. A 5 pm session in Atlanta is 2 pm for a mentor in Los Angeles, so after-school and evening times are easy to set.

Can a mentor help my student keep a scholarship?

Mentors help with the habits behind good grades: planning, routines and follow-through. They are not tutors, and they can work alongside any academic support the student already has.

We live outside metro Atlanta. Is that a problem?

No. Sessions are online, so a family in South Georgia or the mountains gets the same mentor and schedule as one in Buckhead.

Do you meet clients in person in Atlanta?

No. Our team is in Los Angeles, and Georgia clients work with their mentor entirely by video, with text and phone contact between sessions.

Get started

Thinking about a mentor for someone in Georgia? Call (888) 305 5422, email contact@blackburnmentoring.com or start with a short assessment. A member of our team reviews every assessment personally and sets up a free intro call.

Last updated November 2, 2026.

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