Our Mission
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Westchester & Putnam is a youth mentoring organization serving children, ages 7 to 17, who live in New York’s Westchester and Putnam counties.
Our mission is to help all youth achieve their full potential in school and in life. We do that by providing young people who face adversity with professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. We operate under a Big/Little model which matches adult volunteers (our Bigs) with youth ages 7 to 17 (our Littles).
The meaningful and enduring relationships we create have been proven to positively impact our Littles’ lives by keeping them in school and away from violence and substance abuse.
Our History
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is the oldest and largest youth mentoring program in the United States. BBBS started over a century ago to match caring adult volunteers with children in one-to-one mentoring relationships.
Today, there are 238 Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies in over 5,000 communities across the United States. More than 275,000 mentors volunteer their time as Bigs and we made over 135,000 new mentoring matches last year alone.
Our chapter, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Westchester & Putnam, was established in 1958. We currently serve hundreds of children throughout New York’s Westchester and Putnam counties through community-based and school-based mentoring programs.
