Basically, they have you fill out an extensive application, where you get to list everything from your interests to your preferred traits in the kid they match you with. They ask for a commitment of one year, meeting a few hours at a time, a few times a month. I preferred a kid older than nine.
They matched me with a thirteen-year-old girl, who had many of the same mental health problems I’d struggled with. We also both enjoyed crafts and anime. I met her, we clicked pretty well, and then we were all interviewed separately about whether we wanted to go through with the match. Me, her parents, and her.
There has been one problem, where her mom treated me more like a babysitter than her kid’s friend. I asked BBBS for mediation, because it was making me and my Little Sister uncomfortable. They handled it beautifully and I haven’t had problems since.
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Basically, they have you fill out an extensive application, where you get to list everything from your interests to your preferred traits in the kid they match you with. They ask for a commitment of one year, meeting a few hours at a time, a few times a month. I preferred a kid older than nine.
They matched me with a thirteen-year-old girl, who had many of the same mental health problems I’d struggled with. We also both enjoyed crafts and anime. I met her, we clicked pretty well, and then we were all interviewed separately about whether we wanted to go through with the match. Me, her parents, and her.
There has been one problem, where her mom treated me more like a babysitter than her kid’s friend. I asked BBBS for mediation, because it was making me and my Little Sister uncomfortable. They handled it beautifully and I haven’t had problems since.