SHIELD Mentor Program

Meet Our Founders

Precious McKoy, Executive Director, is the visionary of the SHIELD Mentor Program (SHIELD) and co-founded the organization in January 2008 with her husband Antonio McKoy, Community Outreach Liaison.  This dynamic couple believe that a community of people who genuinely care about our youth will impact society in a great way.  They also believe that providing youth with community role models serving as Mentors will replace the lost of positive role models in the lives of youth and shape their behavior at home, at school, and in their personal lives.

Precious and Antonio have dedicated their lives to the concerns of youth, specifically pre-teens and teenagers in middle and high school, whom they feel are commonly overlooked.  They value youths' leadership capabilities and desire to groom them for success as future leaders of the world.  A saying they commonly use is that, "youth don't wait to get older, nor do they wait to make the decisions that will impact their life into adulthood."  Their approach is to impact youth one decision at a time, to shape youths' character and to guide them toward positive behaviors.