Giving Power

The power of your gift will enable BBBS of KC to:

• Provide expert support, counseling and educational services. Our trained Case Managers closely supervise each Big and Little in our mentoring programs, giving advice and suggesting activities to ensure that the match relationships are safe, fun and rewarding. They also connect our families to counseling, support groups and a host of social services.
• Carefully and rigorously match children with adult mentors. BBBS sets the standard for the mentor screening process, fingerprinting each volunteer and conducting the most thorough background checks in the nation against national criminal and sexual offender registries to ensure the safety of the children we serve. Each volunteer candidate is interviewed for suitability by a Case Manager, and every family meets with our Case Managers to ensure that they are prepared to welcome a Big Brother or Big Sister into their lives.
• Organize group activities and educational services. BBBS sponsors many educational trips to museums, zoos, aquariums, and gardens, group tours to college campuses, and seminars on important issues for youth like pregnancy prevention and avoiding gang violence.
• Conduct volunteer recruitment and community outreach efforts. These important events, materials and other initiatives bring us closer to our ambitious goal of providing mentors to all children who need caring adult role models in their lives.
  
  And, your gift will empower our children to succeed:
• 67%of the children in our programs improve their school attendance
• 69% improve their grade
• 91% of our Littles increase their self-esteem

These impressive outcomes demonstrate the powerful changes, remarkable improvements and personal transformations in the children we serve.