In today's world there are more and more children growing up in single parent families. Most of these children have very little contact with caring adult mentors. BBBS helps fill that void. I have participated with them at different levels and mentored three young men. All three completed High School and are contributing adults. One has three other sibling that did not participate in the program and did not complete HS and have spent time in jail or the JDC. The BBBS program works and needs our help.
I am a Big in the program and a financial donor and I am disappointed with the programs that they bring to the kids. For example they will announce a exciting event like a job fair to the kids and hype it up. Then they will either cancel the event less than 24 hours before and or they will bring in one company to talk to the kids about jobs. The company they bring in to talk about jobs will not even have a presentation ready in advance and one that is for the population of children this program is supposedly helping. I don't really like to take my little to their planned events anymore because it is always a disappointment. Either it doesn't happen or done so poorly it doesn't matter and make the kids feel like they are unimportant. I have talked to the people in charge and some of them have recently changed but as of yet there is absolutely no improvement! SAD!
Review from Guidestar