Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Piedmont, Inc.

Our program goals are as follows:
100% matriculation
80% Improvement in class room behavior
80% Improvement in academics
80% will maintain on-going mentoring relationship

All of our matches will be assigned a case manager for the purposes of monthly contacts and match evaluation and support. We will use an evaluation form called, Program Outcome Evaluation (POE), which includes 21 outcome objectives for the program. They are based on the 40 developmental assets that The Search Institute says takes to raise healthy children. We have influence on 21 of those assets and they will be divided into 3 categories called confidence, competence, and caring. This evaluation will be completed by the teacher, parent and volunteer of the program participant. We will also collect report cards of program participants to measure the goal of 100% matriculation and 70% will show academic improvement and behavior improvement. Of those children 70% will show improvement in confidence, competence, and caring as well.

We have been conducting Program Outcome Evaluations for the last 14 years.

BBBS has 10 full time staff persons and 1 part-time person, whom all hold a minimum of a 4-year college degree and training in the area of case management. The CEO and VP of Programs both hold a Masters degree in business and social work respectively. All staff are trained locally as well as by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and all must pass online training tests and attend trainings on a regular basis. Three of the staff who will be working on the Mentoring Children of Promise have all been trained in that program by federal trainers. We will then in turn train our volunteers on how to specifically work with children of an incarcerated parent.

Each year at the end of the school year we collect report cards, surveys from teachers and parents and compile them into our Report to the Community. We are collecting data and reporting each year so the process is always ongoing.

We are currently implementing College & Career Readiness Programs and are in the process of getting a building donated so we can do programming for this program and others.