Our Programs

If you're not familiar with how our different programs work, I'm going to break them down really easy for you:

The Traditional Program

• You see your mentee once a week for 3-4 hours in the community. You have your choice of doing whatever you want!

The In-School Mentoring (ISM) Program

• You see your mentee once a week for 1 hour (no more) on school property, during school hours, for the duration of the school year.

Go Girls

•   You follow a 7-week program with a group of 6-8 girls, for 1 hour/week for 7 weeks on school property during school hours.

Game On

• You follow a 7-week program with a group of 6-8 boys, for 1 hour/week for 7 weeks on school property during school hours.

 Kids in Motion

•  You develop your own 7-week program (or follow one of ours, options now are: crafts, sports) with a group of 6-10 boys and girls for 1 hour/week for 7 weeks on school property during school hours.

Pretty basic right? Well what if you're in the ISM Program but you want to spend time with your mentee during the summer? 

Usually, that would be against our rules, but if you're registered in BOTH the Traditional and ISM Programs, you can see your mentee for the 1 hour during the school year as usual, then you can take them out in the summer, too! This program is great if you've developed a good relationship with your mentee and you want to see them in those summer months or if you just want to take them places off school property!

 

If this, or any of our programs sounds like it would be a good fit for you, please call our office more information! Cheryl Holmes, Programs Manager, 905-985-3733 ext. 2.

For more information on our programs or our organization, please visit our website here. 

Welcome!

Welcome to the new blog of Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Durham!

Here's what our organization does in the briefest of terms: We provide quality Mentoring Programs the children and youth in North Durham (Brock, Scugog and Uxbridge). More details about our Mentoring Programs can be found on our website here.

Since we are a non-profit organization, we have many fundraisers throughout the year in order to keep ourselves running. These events include our famous Annual Wing & Pizza Night (the last Saturday in February), our Bowl for Kids Sake (usually April or May), our Ride for Kids Sake (September) and our Halloween Spooktacular Party (October, obviously). We are also lucky enough to be involved in many third party events such as Campkin's Open House, the Scugog Men's Hockey League Charity Golf Tournament,  Bridal Wars, many BBQs and more!

On this blog, we'll let you know what we're doing, share stories about our awesome matches, share with you ideas for things to do with your kids or teens (straight from our Pinterest page) and just random things that we like! We hope you enjoy and please follow us on our new blog journey to keep everyone informed!

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Krista
Special Events Coordinator