High turnover rates affect diverse professional areas. Recruiting and training new employees is costly for profit and non-profit organizations. Teacher induction programs provide the emotional and professional support that beginning teachers need in the transitory phase from being a student at a university to being a teacher in a classroom. To help teachers through the hardships of their first three years, the College of Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC-Charlotte) created First 3, an induction program for pre-service and beginning teachers. This report will evaluate the effect that First 3 has had on pre-service and beginning teachers and how effective the program reached its goals of providing professional development and mentoring to beginning teachers during Fall 2012 and Spring 2013. [For the 2014 report see, ED627311. For the 2015 report, see ED627313. For the Effectiveness Report, see ED627309.]