BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CANADA-LES GRANDS FRERES GRANDES SOEURS DU CANADA
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Mission Statement
Big Brothers Big Sisters is the leading national volunteer-based mentoring organization committed to Canada’s young people, enabling uplifting mentoring relationships to ignite the power and potential of young people. Our mission is to ensure that every child who needs a mentor has access to one. Our vision is that “All young people realize their full potential.”
About This Cause
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada is a Federation comprised of over 95 member agencies servicing more than 1,100 communities across the country. Together we mobilize over 16,000 volunteers who in turn mentor 26,400+ children and young people. That works out to about 2 million volunteer hours each year. Many children and youth struggle with societal barriers and face adversities such as poverty, family instability, mental health, and identity-based discrimination. These adversities can negatively affect a young person’s future. Mentoring relationships change young people’s lives. With training and professional support, Big Brothers Big Sisters mentors form strong positive relationships with their mentees that express care, challenge growth, share power, and expand possibilities. Mentorship equals resilience. Mentees and mentors mutually benefit from these professionally supported relationships. When you’re there for a young person as they grow up, you learn just as much as they do. How do we do it? BBBS matches young people to positive adult mentors, through individual matches or group programming. Mentorship is a two-way, learning and development partnership where the young person’s needs are placed at the centre. Because young people’s brains are still developing, mentoring can support that process through back-and-forth interaction like the volley in a good game of ping-pong. Mentoring is an important way to give youth experience with these essential relationships, developing them into healthy young people better able to deal with and overcome life’s adversities.