Mentor - A wise and trusted friend and guide

That word "mentor" can be so unspecific.  It is sometimes used to describe a CEO bringing along a younger executive, or a professor guiding a graduate student.  Those are not the kinds of mentors we mean here.  "Mentee" is even worse.  It sounds like a breath mint.  But so far, those are the only words we have to describe one-on-one relationships between caring adults and kids who need some guidance.

No one makes it in America without some kind of mentor.  Whenever successful people look back, they cite those older adults who influenced their development, even if they knew each other for only a short time.  For at-risk kids facing steep odds against success, finding mentors is not only helpful but essential.  They can't make it all by themselves.

Mentors are needed to make a positive impact on a young person's life.  Listed below are the criteria needed for Big Brothers Big Sisters volunteer mentors.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Richland County

801 S. West Street, Suite 117

P.O. Drawer D

Olney, IL  62450

Telephone:  (618) 392-3863