The perspective of parents and other caregivers is underrepresented in the mentorship literature despite robust evidence about the importance of primary caregivers for child outcomes and the need for caregiver consent for mentorship programs to serve children. Here, we report the results of an exploratory study of the perspectives of 13 caregivers whose children participated in Friends of the Children, a professional youth mentorship program. Open-ended qualitative interviews were conducted, transcribed, and coded for themes. Emerging themes centered around program impressions, mentor identity and behaviors, access to resources, family impacts of the program, and parental opinions about qualities of an effective mentor. In particular, culturally sensitive services, quality communication by mentors, and ability to connect families with services to support individualized, family-specific needs were valued by caregivers. We encourage further explorations of caregiver perspectives and the impacts and influences of caregivers on mentoring program outcomes.