We Need Mentors
Youth are more likely to succeed in life with the additional support of an adult mentor who guides them with helpful tips and advice during their educational journey. Nonprofits and education experts encourage the idea that of mentoring programs because a mentor relationship helps to improve life outcomes for young people.
Mentors help young adults recognize their abilities and limitations for development at the personal level, develop positive relationships with peers and adults and become a productive member of society.
Having a mentor can be beneficial for young adults to realizing their full potential, learning skills, build self control and discipline and reduce the likelihood of risky behavior with drugs and alcohol. Mentors play an important role in the community by making a profound difference in the lives of their mentees. During the course of the relationship, the mentee will gain a new perspective on life while the mentor feels a sense of achievement when their mentee succeeds.
According to a study by Big Brother Big Sisters (described in more details here) after just 18 months in a mentoring relationship youth were:
At-risk youth have a higher dropout rate due to their lack of guidance at home and at the school. Having consistent support, outside home is essential because their lack of academic confidence can cause them to have a higher risk of homelessness, suspension, and early parenthood; derailing their path towards graduation and success.
Mentoring relationships are worthwhile with powerful and complementary benefits to help at-risk youth achieve their dreams, have more positive visions of themselves and their futures, succeed in school, and give back to their communities.
Big Brothers and Sisters of Brownsville is all about mentoring! We match caring volunteers with kids facing adversity to provide professionally-supported, structured mentoring relationships that have a measurable positive impact on our youth, our mentors and our community. We offer a variety of volunteer opportunities that fit every schedule: community-based mentoring and school-based mentoring.
It doesn't take any special skills or education to mentor in our community-based or school-based programs, just a desire to help a child succeed. It is about developing a friendship and empowering a child. It will be one of the most fulfilling things you do, and you will be a force for change in our community.
Common Interest
We spend time getting to know volunteers and kids to make a good match and lasting friendship. Do you both like sports, music or reading? We look for things you have in common so you will have a good basis to develop a friendship.
To make the best match, we also take into account things such as preferences, personalities and cultural background. We work hard to make a match that is compatible so your friendship will grow and last.
We match a child facing adversity with an adult volunteer and professionally support the relationship for the entire length of the match. Mentorship by a caring adult has proven to significantly increase a child's academic performance and self-esteem, while decreasing risky behaviors.
School-based mentoring matches, including meet weekly at a scheduled time at school. Our professional staff facilitates activities designed to help strengthen your relationship, and help your mentee build character strengths and social emotional competencies.
Simply fill out the inquiry form, and submit it to us via email:
bbob@bigbrotherbisisterofbrownsville.org
or mail:
572 Robin, Street
Brownsville, TN 38012
Volunteers are interviewed to determine personalities, preferences and interests. We also:
Once you are accepted you will:
52% Young Males
48% Young Females
What is a community based literacy program? Community-BasedLiteracy programs are driven by comprehensive, holistic approaches to education in which parents and children learn and grow together. Family Literacy programs address the literacy strengths and needs of the family/community while promoting adults' involvement in children's education, recognizing adults as a powerful influence on children's academic success. Family literacy programs also recognize the reciprocal nature of parent-child relationships. Programs provide both parent-initiated and child-initiated activities to support development of those relationships and to increase the motivation to learn for both parent and child. Education opportunities of families are improved by integrating early childhood and adult education into unified programs. Family literacy programs provide services that are of sufficient intensity in terms of hours, and of sufficient duration, to make sustainable changes in a family and that integrate all of the following activities:
We provide inspiring literacy activities, support, and new, high-quality books to children from low-income families and to other children who are at risk of growing up with low literacy skills.
The organizations also serve children who often lack access to books in their daily lives. We also provide parent seminars to describe ways to make reading aloud with children easy and fun, even if parents aren’t strong readers themselves.
When you donate to Big Brothers of Brownsville you are supporting lifelong relationships between mentors and children that change children's life's for the better, forever! For more than 5 years, our proven outcome-based mentoring programs have provided children facing adversity with the guidance, support and encouragement they need to succeed in life. Join us and make a lifelong impact on a child today! When you support Big Brothers of Brownsville, you help children facing adversity and create more opportunities for success – for them and for our communities. Mentorship by caring adults has proven effective in significantly increasing performance in school and self-esteem while decreasing risky behaviors in children and youth.
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572 Robin St, Brownsville, TN 38012, US
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