MONROE - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County has received a grant from the Clifford and Dorothy Reasa Charitable fund of the Monroe Fund and the Monsignor Thomas F. Campion Special Projects Fund, components of the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin, Inc., to support a bus sponsorship for school-based mentoring in the Monroe school district.
School-based mentoring provides elementary school children, or "Littles," the opportunity to be matched with high school students, "Bigs," in a supervised mentoring setting. Matches in Monroe will be meeting weekly on early release Mondays from 2:15 to 3:45 p.m. beginning Sept. 9 and will run through the school year.
The program will allow matches to spend more time together doing things like receiving homework assistance, sharing a snack together, participating in arts and crafts activities, playing games or just socializing. With the program moving to early release Mondays, BBBS also hope to see the number of mentors increasing, as the students will no longer have conflicts with extra- curricular or sports team practices as they have experienced in the past.
For more information about the mentoring program, contact Karen Tway or Shannon Kaszuba at 608-325-7855 or visit www.bbbsgreencounty.org.
Grants from the Clifford and Dorothy Reasa Charitable Fund of Monroe Fund and the Monsignor Thomas F. Campion Special Projects Fund have supported the arts, education, environment, health and human services and historic preservation.
For more information, contact Linda Gebhardt at 608-328-4060 or the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin at 800-995-2379 or at www.cfsw.org.
School-based mentoring provides elementary school children, or "Littles," the opportunity to be matched with high school students, "Bigs," in a supervised mentoring setting. Matches in Monroe will be meeting weekly on early release Mondays from 2:15 to 3:45 p.m. beginning Sept. 9 and will run through the school year.
The program will allow matches to spend more time together doing things like receiving homework assistance, sharing a snack together, participating in arts and crafts activities, playing games or just socializing. With the program moving to early release Mondays, BBBS also hope to see the number of mentors increasing, as the students will no longer have conflicts with extra- curricular or sports team practices as they have experienced in the past.
For more information about the mentoring program, contact Karen Tway or Shannon Kaszuba at 608-325-7855 or visit www.bbbsgreencounty.org.
Grants from the Clifford and Dorothy Reasa Charitable Fund of Monroe Fund and the Monsignor Thomas F. Campion Special Projects Fund have supported the arts, education, environment, health and human services and historic preservation.
For more information, contact Linda Gebhardt at 608-328-4060 or the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin at 800-995-2379 or at www.cfsw.org.
