Big Brothers Big Sisters is a preventative program which provides young people aged 7 to 25 years with a caring adult mentor in their lives, someone to confide in and look up to.
The Young Adults Mentoring Program, which includes the Kids Under Cover Mentoring Program, matches young people aged 15-25 to mentors. Mentors provide friendship and social, study or career related support to the young people as they strive to set and reach their personal, study and career related goals.
The Young Achievers Mentoring Program matches mentors in a one-to-one friendship with year 10, 11 and 12 students who are high achievers, show leadership qualities or exhibit talents in such areas as the arts, music or sports.
Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) has developed an innovative mentoring program that engages young refugees from Burma, from the Karen, Kachin and Chin communities.
For the first time ever, Big Brothers Big Sisters has located one of its mentoring staff at a police station in the rural township of Wangaratta in Victoria’s north-east. This partnership with Victoria Police ensures that young people have the best opportunity to access mentoring services in a timely manner.
The Going the Distance Program matches disengaged young people aged 12-25years living in the Local Government Areas of Brimbank and Moonee Valley in the Western Metropolitan area of Melbourne with a adult volunteer mentor to re-connect them with the education system and the wider community.
