HOW DO WE DO IT?

BBBS creates individual and group mentoring relationships amongst adults and youth.

Mentorship is two-way, learning and development partnership where the young person needs are placed at the centre.

Young people’s brains are still developing, and that process is supported 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 serve-and-return relationships, developing them into healthy young people better able to deal with and overcome life’s adversities.

THE STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL MENTORING

We have a comprehensive infrastructure for supporting mentorship partnerships: detailed legal screening of mentors to ensure child safety; a broad network of professional staff supporting mentors and volunteers; systems for selecting, approving and supporting volunteers; referring families to agencies that provide other services if required for the mentee and theirfamily.