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OJJDP Names BBBS community-based mentoring effective practice -- The Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) community-based (CB) mentoring program is featured as an "effective" practice in a new Website launched by the Office of Justice Program (OJP). This website is part of OJP's efforts to be a resource to inform practitioners and policymakers about what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice and crime victim services. You can see the BBBS profile by clicking on the following link: The website is called CrimeSolutions.gov and includes information on more than 150 justice-related programs. The site assigns "evidence ratings" -- effective, promising, or no effects. The Big Brothers Big Sisters profile cites the 2000 study titled Making a Difference: An Impact Study of Big Brothers/Big Sisters by Public/Private Ventures as providing evidence that our mentoring model is effective at producing positive outcomes. Due to the fact that BBBS has research to support the effectiveness of our mentoring model, it is considered an "Evidenced-Based Practice" (EBP). An EBP designation means that the BBBS model has been submitted through a scientifically rigorous evaluation that determined that our model has a positive impact on youth.
Get the Facts: For more than 100 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life. Most children served by Big Brothers Big Sisters live in single-parent and low-income families, or households where a parent is incarcerated. As the nation’s largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”). Providing a system of ongoing evaluation and support, Big Brothers Big Sisters is proven by independent studies to help families by improving the odds that Littles will perform better in school and avoid violence and illegal activities, and have stronger relationships with their parents and others. Headquartered in Philadelphia with a network of nearly 400 agencies across the country, Big Brothers Big Sisters serves a quarter million children annually.
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