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To address the variety of children's needs in our community, we support three unique programs:

Community Match Program

This cornerstone program matches "Littles" (children ages 6 to 14) to "Bigs" (volunteer adults) for a friendship of at least one year. Our match recruitment specialist evaluates the special needs of each child and carefully selects adult volunteers to pair with them, based on common interests, abilities, and personalities. With continued support of the match support specialist, the pairs then spend time together, normally several hours a month, doing ordinary things they both enjoy. The agency also sponsors regular events that all the pairs may attend. Our well-matched pairs frequently choose to remain friends in the program well after the year is through.

School-Based Mentoring Programs

Big Brothers Big Sisters programs are becoming increasingly popular in local schools. In these site-based programs, community adults and teens are paired with youngsters for weekly sessions at their schools. Activities are provided for each supervised session. Studies indicate that these programs reap many of the same benefits of our traditional program. We currently serve 300 children in the following schools:

  • Bath: Dike-Newell, Fisher-Mitchell, Bath Middle School

  • Bowdoin: Bowdoin Central School

  • Bowdoinham: Bowdoinham Community School

  • Brunswick: Brunswick Jr. High, Coffin, Hawthorne, Jordan Acres, Longfellow

  • Georgetown: Georgetown Central School

  • Harpswell: Harpswell Island School

  • Topsham: Williams Cone, Woodside, Mount Ararat Middle

  • Woolwich: Woolwich Central

Bears and Cubs

The program is a partnership effort with the Bowdoin College community. Children participating in this program are “waiting” for a Big in our Community Match Program. The waiting children are paired with specially-selected college students who then meet on campus Sunday afternoons for activities ranging from swimming to crafts.

Upward Bound

This summer program is made possible through the partnership of Bowdoin College and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bath/Brunswick. This program matches children on our wait-list with college-bound high school students from around the state. The matches meet on the Bowdoin College campus where the group engages in a variety of fun and educational projects. This program is offered during the summer months for 6 weeks and meets every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.