BECOME A MENTOR
Why Mentoring?
Parents are the most important influence on young people's lives. But parents
often need help. Mentoring offers parents the support of one more healthy, caring
one-to-one relationship that fosters their child's healthy growth. Mentoring helps
kids. Mentoring helps parents. Mentoring helps us all. Mentoring influences lives.
Mentoring makes lives better.
Mentoring works! Period.
What Studies Show?
Mentoring works! Period.
What Studies Show?
Benefits for Youth
A Public/Private ventures study of Big Brothers/Big Sisters found that youth
who were in a mentored relationship for a year were:
46% less likely to begin using illegal drugs;
27% less likely to begin using alcohol;
52% less likely to skip school and;
37% less likely to skip class.
