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About Us

History
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has been serving children since 1903. Today there are more than 470 affiliates nationwide.

Here locally, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Snohomish County was founded in 1987 after Paul Seely from the Boeing Company was recruited to Chair Board Recruitment. Bill Sullivan, Dottie Piasecki, Sue Gould, Barbara McCarthy, Sue Cooper, Tom Dickson, and Bob Drewel joined him.

On April 1, 2001 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Snohomish County merged with the YMCA of Snohomish County. Uniting the organizational strength, size and mission of the YMCA with the long-standing programmatic expertise of Big Brothers Big Sisters has made a dynamic team for providing quality mentoring relationships throughout Snohomish County.

Mission
BBBS has a prevention-focused organization that addresses one of the main problems of today's society: lack of caring adults in children's lives. Providing safe places, caring adults and productive activities allows us to create an asset-building environment for youth. By building assets a youth is able to address multiple problems at once. In many cases, Big Brothers and Sisters are people you may work or play with- they are people who find value in our future: our children.

In May 2006, mentors and educators in both Everett and Edmonds school districts involved in the School-based program reported the following about their littles over the past school year:

    Improved self-confidence 83%
    Improved sense of future 63%
    Improved academic performance 70%
    Improved in showing trust toward them 93%

We believe putting a positive, caring adult into the life a child is an important resource for long-term impact and change.