Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK
Organization Details
About
As the nations largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (Bigs) and children (Littles), ages 6 through 18, in communities across the state of Oklahoma. We develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of young people.
Our missionis to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Our visionis that all youth achieve their full potential.
Mission Statement
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahomas evidence-based mentoring programs are designed to create positive, measurable outcomes for youth, including educational success, avoidance of risky behaviors, higher aspirations, greater confidence, and better relationships. We match children (we call them Littles) with caring adult role models (we call them Bigs). Our Bigs share experiences with our Littles that expand their world in new ways.
MENTORING YOUTH. CHANGING FUTURES.Every child is born with great potential. But faced with adversity, the trajectory of life finds a less desirable path. A mentor empowers a child to realize their biggest possible future. To achieve goals once believed out of reach. To ignite their full potential.135,000 CHILDRENOklahoma leads the world in incarceration rates, which means that 15% of our kids experience parental incarceration at some point in their childhood. That is more than three children in each Oklahoma classroom. Those children are 70% more likely to end up incarcerated themselves.30 PERCENTNearly one-third of Oklahoma children have incurred two or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), ranking Oklahoma number one among other states. In adulthood, they are more likely to suffer from alcoholism, abuse drugs, suffer from depression, and not graduate high school.1 IN 3 YOUTHThere is a mentoring gap in America. One-third of our nations youth are growing up without a positive role model. Big Brothers Big Sisters aims to fill that gap in an effort to combat adverse childhood experiences and put children on the path to their biggest possible futures.