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Adult Party
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
1-4p.m.  Yankee Lanes
Keene, NH

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Staff Members Karen Brook, Program Coordinator, and Samantha Clough, Marketing and Recruiting Coordinators have teamed up to open a new Big Brothers Big Sisters office in Sullivan County. Together they are launching the Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring program for the Second Chance Youth and Family Intervention Program. The other Big Brothers Big Sisters Programs involve Mentoring Child of a Prisoners, Mentoring Partnerships with Schools, Mentoring for Children with Disabilities, Mentoring for Foster Kids, and Mentoring for Abused Children. Call 603-283-0849 to volunteer or to enroll your child. Or e-mail: kbrook@bbbswnh.org or sclough@bbbswnh.org

The 2nd Chance Juvenile Mentoring Initiative provides targeted intervention for adjudicated youth 14-17 year olds in Sullivan County who are at risk for placement or who have already been placed outside the home. The goal is to reduce the need for expensive residential placement for these youth and help them build positive, productive futures. This program is here to make a real difference in the lives of youth and their families.

In this collaborative project, high-risk youth receive a range of services including family treatment through Child and Family Services. Big Brothers and Big Sisters will recruit and train mentors interested in helping these youth improve their lives. Families will be able to take classes through Community Alliance of Human Services. Each client is assigned a case manager and a Juvenile Probation and Parole Officer.

This program is a collaboration of:

• Sullivan County Board of Commissioners
• Newport District Court and Family Division
• NH Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services
• Child and Family Services of NH
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Western NH
• Community Alliance of Human Services
• Communities United for Substance Abuse Prevention

In describing his commitment to the program, Judge Bruce Cardello of the Newport District Court and Family Division says, “We are excited by the prospect of really helping these families work their way out of future court-involvement. The project also gives other interested members of our community the chance to be part of the solution by coming forward to mentor these young people. We are becoming more innovative in our court approaches to juvenile delinquency now, but we need the support of volunteers and other agencies to create supportive community environments for our youth.”

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For questions, please call Peg Monahan at 1-603-352-9536 ext. 101