Up2Us is a one-to-one mentoring program that represents the partnership between Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Boys & Girls Club.  Volunteers spend time weekly as a positive adult role model to the same child at a Boys & Girls Club facility.  Just as with any other child visiting a neighborhood Club, the two can participate in all types of sports, work on homework, play games, or enjoy any of the Club’s recreational activities.

A new program for Nashville and middle Tennessee, this marriage of two successful youth encouragement programs represents a model of youth mentoring that encompasses the structured one-to-one Big Brothers Big Sisters relationship while maintaining the “safe place” security for the child by activities being held at the familiar Boys & Girls Club location.  The pilot program is serving children at the Andrew Jackson Boys & Girls Club facility.
Boys & Girls Club’s slogan is “the positive place for kids,” and combining this strength with Big Brothers Big Sisters motto of “Little Moments… that create Big Magic,” has certainly proven very promising.
For more information on the Up2Us program, please click here.