Big Brothers Big Sisters
of the Flint Hills, Inc.
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Mission
Our Mission
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Flint Hills, Inc. is a non-profit corporation that seeks to promote positive youth development through a variety of prevention programs designed to reflect and enhance the unique strengths of each child and family. Youth involved in our program are between the ages of 5 and 17 years and reside in Chase, Coffey, Lyon, and Morris counties. We provide positive role models who offer friendship and support to children who come from all social, financial, and ethnic backgrounds. Ongoing support and enrichment are provided by the professional staff for parents, children, and volunteers.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Flint Hills, Inc. is a non-profit corporation that seeks to promote positive youth development through a variety of prevention programs designed to reflect and enhance the unique strengths of each child and family. Youth involved in our program are between the ages of 5 and 17 years and reside in Chase, Coffey, Lyon, and Morris counties. We provide positive role models who offer friendship and support to children who come from all social, financial, and ethnic backgrounds. Ongoing support and enrichment are provided by the professional staff for parents, children, and volunteers.
Our Vision
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Flint Hills, Inc. strives to establish mentoring relationships of the highest quality for children and youth in our community. In so doing, we will provide them with the tools necessary to become productive and caring members of society.
Our Values
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Flint Hills, Inc. recognize the following values that guide our daily efforts to promote the positive development of youth in our community.
- That the staff and Board of Directors of the agency must incorporate continuous evaluation and improvement as a component of good practice.
- That adults are not directors or authorities in the lives of youth but, rather, partners in their struggle to gain skills and find success.
- That, in the process of fostering positive youth development, multiple developmental tasks and domains must be addressed simultaneously, and that it is the staff’s role to provide professional guidance to volunteers and families.
- That every child and adult has goals, talents, and confidence that can be further developed, and that every environment contains resources, people, and opportunities that can be accessed to the benefit of youth and families.
- That overemphasis on needs, problems, or deficiencies serves, in large measure, to label and stigmatize a child or family without providing insight into the meaning of the family’s struggle or the strengths that have developed as a result.
- That every child possesses assets and resiliencies that, when properly identified and understood, can be used as building blocks for positive youth development.
- That each member of our community is interdependent on the others; when one child benefits as a result of our program, the community as a whole benefits as well.
- That the family unit is one of many determinants of a child’s positive development; that the existence of an additional relationship with an caring, compatible adult can enhance the child’s ability to function effectively within the family and the community.
- That a positive and professional presence in the community is an essential component of quality program management.
- That each child and family’s background, experiences, personality, and perceptions are unique, and that children benefit most when the staff is familiar with the context in which the family comes to participate in the program.
- That children have the best chance of success when they are safe, well nourished, and free from physical, emotional, and sexual harm or exploitation; that the agency staff, as well as families and volunteers, must be vigilant and proactive in protecting the safety of children in the community.
- That children benefit most from a holistic approach to youth development efforts, and that staff and volunteers should engage the child’s family and other social structures to the greatest extent possible to the benefit of the child.
