Support from individuals like you is essential to providing mentors for children in Butler County. As children grow from childhood through their teen years and into young adulthood, they need a caring adult to be a mentor and friend. Through their mentors, children youth are exposed to a world that is often very different from what surrounds them on a daily basis. Their role model and friend guides them, supports them, and cares about the choices they make. All children should have a caring friend whom they can talk to, have fun with, hang out with and learn from. Your gift to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County will help us to:

*Serve nearly 500 children in Butler County by providing each one of them with a caring adult mentor of their own.
*Recruit mentors for children on our waiting list.
*Cover the costs of background checks and insurance, while ensuring that trained professionals match children with caring and responsible Big Brothers and Sisters.
*Provide instructors and instructional materials during our professional training sessions for staff, mentors and families.
*Find, interview, screen, train, match and supervise children with mentors so that we can ensure that true friendships are developing between mentors and youth.

Your gift will have a significant impact on a child in our community. You can support the cost of:

• Recruiting a new Big (approximately $50 per Big)

• Running background checks ($75 per Big)

• Measuring the progress of Littles and evaluating programs to ensure effectiveness ($150 per match)

You can also aim to cover the full cost of a match through our Sponsor a Match program. Each match between a Little and a Big costs us approximately $1,000 for a full year of service and support