Welcome!
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Livingston
County has been providing children with mentors since 1980. Our
service is based on a One-To-One relationship between a
volunteer and a child in need of a friend.
Volunteers serve as friends, mentors, and
role models, helping children (who are primarily from
single-parent homes) gain greater self-confidence. “Bigs”
encourage “Littles” to realize their potential and see
themselves as having happy and successful futures.
The Search Institute,
a national research firm, conducted a study examining the effect
of Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring on youth and found that,
compared to their peers, Little Brothers and Little Sisters who
met with their Bigs regularly were:
- 46% less likely to start using drugs
- 27% less likely to start drinking
- 52% less likely to skip a day of
school
- 37% less likely to skip a class
- 1/3 less likely to hit someone
- More trusting of their parents/
guardians
- Less likely to lie
- Felt more supported and less
criticized by their peers and friends
Last year we were able to impact 482
children through mentoring; changing their lives for the better
- forever.
The menu on the left side
of this page will direct you to more information about us, what
we do, and how we do it (including our
Mentoring
Activities).
News and Events
Swing "fore" Kids Info
Swing
"fore" Kids
The Brandon Wilson Farm Bureau Insurance Agency in Pinckney
will be hosting the Swing "fore" Kids Charity golf outing to
benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Livingston County.
Golf Pricing
*Early Bird Special - Registration and Payment Received
before May 25th: $70 Per Golfer
Registrations received after May 25th: $85 Per Golfer
(This includes golf, box lunch, dinner, and 2 drink
tickets.)
*$280 Per Foursome Early Bird Special
Foursome Registrations received after May
25th are $340
(This includes golf, cart, box lunch, dinner, and 2 drink
tickets per person.)
Register Here
    
The Michigan State Police (MSP) and the Big Brothers Big
sisters (BBBS) Alliance announced a new partnership designated
to better serve at-risk youth. The MSP and BBBS have entered
into a Memorandum of Agreement to support each other’s
activities and promote collaboration in an effort...
to reduce delinquency, alcohol/drug/tobacco use, violence and
truancy, among other things, of at-risk youth. Some of the
collaboration includes cross training of staff, expediting the
screening process for mentors, increasing at-risk youth
referrals, improving the delivery of mentoring services to
at-risk youth and tracking the outcome measurements, raising
awareness for the opportunity of youth to attend the MSP Youth
Leadership Academy and increasing the number of MSP mentors.
“The Michigan State Police has a longstanding history of working
with families, schools, faith-based organizations, and youth
agencies in an effort to help youth become responsible adults.”
said MSP Director Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue. “I am a firm believer
in the value of prevention services and community policing,
which is why we have community service troopers assigned to
communities across the state whose sole focus is outreach to
help strengthen communities. Prevention, education and
partnerships are necessary and needed components to improving
the quality of life for our youth.”
“This is really exciting news to all Big Brothers Big Sisters
agencies but I am especially grateful,” stated Shari Davis-Schoech,
Executive Director of Livingston County’s BBBS agency. “William
Pertner, past Commander (now deceased) of the Brighton Post was
my first boss and a wonderful mentor to me. He helped start
BBBSLC and he always made sure his troopers were very involved
in the community; he would love this partnership.” |
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Big Brother Doug and Little Ben participated
in the funny photo contest.
Big Sister Ruthann and Little Sister ShyLinn are a great match
in Lunch Buddies!
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