To enrich, encourage and empower children to reach their highest potential through safe, positive, one-to-one mentoring relationships.

Big Brothers & Big Sisters , Children & Youth

Bbbs provides mentoring services to facilitate the personal growth and development of the children in bbbs programs. Bbbs recruits, screens and educates volunteers to serve as big brothers or big sisters. Bbbs monitors the matches between big brothers and sisters and little brothers and sisters to ensure positive experiences for both bigs and littles. Programs focus on increasing the children's educational performance and promoting long term goals of attaining a higher level of education, especially for at-risk youth. Bbbs lone star served 5,684 kids during 2017.