About
We match at-risk children with mentors in one-to-one relationships in community-based and school-based programs. These matches provide the individual attention the children need to thrive. Each child has outcome objectives, which their mentor helps them achieve. We train our mentors and provide ongoing match support to mentors, parents and children. We subject our programs to a rigorous outcomes analysis. Adult mentors are asked to spend an hour a week or four hours a month with a child, meeting at mutually convenient times, doing things they enjoy and find valuable. School-based matches differ from community-based matches because children are referred by their schools rather than by parents or other caregivers, and meet at school with their mentors, who are mature high school students. We currently have school-based mentoring programs at Ada, Kenton and Upper Scioto Valley.
Kids in both programs are doing better at home, better in school, and staying out of trouble.
When you support Big Brothers Big Sisters, you change lives for children here in our community.
