3. Community-Based Programs Spending time together out in the local community is essentially how “Bigs” and “Littles” develop their relationship. After all, to change a child’s perspective of the world, it helps to spend some time out in it.
11. 52% less likely to skip schoolAnd it couldn’t be done without you!
12. You are an integral part of the growing process. More than 70% of our children waiting for a Big are boys, but only 3 out of every 10 inquiries to volunteer come from men.Disproportionately the children we serve and those waiting to be matched are African-American and Hispanic boys.
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15. We are all products of our environments, some insouciant and othersawfully precarious. A community program which enables those from polaropposites of a spectrum and everything in-between an opportunity to enrich one another’s lives is a quintessential faculty to the growth of our nation.
16. Through this volunteer based undergirdB.B.B.S. has gone beyond conceptualization and organized a tangible community based program emphasizing the growth of our nations adolescent minds, in an attempt to successfully propel our youth beyond the threshold of adulthood. Though the children participating in the B.B.B.S. program had always been applying the fundamental aspects governing the idea of metacognition and similar principles thereof, most were not even aware.
17. As the older, more experienced, “Bigs” interact with their “Littles” they reinforce these ideas and positively influence their “littles” to explore and evaluate the world in which they live with a different perspective. It is because of the confidence the “Bigs” instill in their “littles” that this is possible. In school these latent ideals slowly become overt.
18. How Can You Volunteer?1.Fill out an online application 2.Be willing to provide references 3.Participate in an in-person interview 4.Go through a background check www.bbbs.org
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