Big Brother Big Sisters Change Video

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  1. Hello, I'm Chiara Lawrence
  2. and I'm Acacia opinion
  3. and we'll be doing our project on Big Brothers and Big sisters
  4. of the central piedmont area.
  5. Big brothers and Big sisters
  6. Was founded in 1978 by Court Representative by the name of Ernest Carter.
  7. This organization was founded to build one
  8. only one mentor relationships between youth
  9. from low income communities to help them stay out of trouble.
  10. Um the research has heightened my awareness on this agency
  11. of the community because we were able to analyze the following areas
  12. on which are have poverty and crime rates, food insecurity,
  13. lack of jobs
  14. and lack of entertainment in the community.
  15. Good,
  16. some community screams.
  17. Um, this community,
  18. this organization is located in high point north Carolina.
  19. Um had
  20. high point north Carolina was charted
  21. On May 26,.
  22. Located on North Carolina's crossroads between Charlotte and Goldsboro,
  23. which is part of Guilford County.
  24. Um how point is known for its massive furniture,
  25. textile and business manufacturing,
  26. many different educational and sports institutions
  27. and resilient community leaders and residents.
  28. Some areas to be improved education,
  29. more affordable housing and more community involvement
  30. with Big Brothers and Big Sisters.
  31. Some rates that we decided to include are the poverty and
  32. crime rates which are 17.8% of poverty and 23.8% of crime,
  33. unemployment rates.
  34. 4.3% ethnicity rates, 47.3% non Hispanic whites, 41
  35. .4% black or African American
  36. 5% african
  37. Indian or Alaska native and one
  38. and
  39. .1% native Americans or Pacific Islanders
  40. Also,
  41. are unknown, racist and 3% are multiracial.
  42. While as us in the community around Big Brother Big Sisters,
  43. we had to get a complete
  44. understanding of the community's physical characteristics,
  45. geographical location, government, culture and assumptions.
  46. Big Brother Big Sisters arrived in the tribe
  47. originally claiming downtown Greensboro as its home
  48. due to the expansion of Big Brother Big Sisters,
  49. they moved to a new mentoring and central service center
  50. which has upgraded technology and more space for the staff mentors and Children.
  51. High point North Carolina acquired the new location of the organization
  52. in November 2021 and celebrated by welcoming
  53. each member with an outdoor movement night
  54. when conducting the walking survey.
  55. My partner and I
  56. saw that there are not many homes
  57. in their apartments surrounding the establishment.
  58. However, there are some residential areas around the nearest school.
  59. In this part of high point there are no signs of decay
  60. being that it was very new and it is very well managed.
  61. There are clean streets,
  62. nice restaurants and the businesses are new and well count.
  63. There is a park near the Big Brothers Big Sisters headquarters.
  64. This park is Hope Hollow Festival Park which has a lakefront outdoor stage,
  65. picnic shelter, barbecue grills, marinas and playgrounds for Children.
  66. There are many common areas surrounding East Chester.
  67. A few minutes away from Big Brother Big Sisters, there are two major hotspots.
  68. The palladium in North Chester shopping centers and houses many restaurants,
  69. stores and even a small medical plaza.
  70. This medical plaza contains many service centers and urgent care,
  71. a dentist and even a massage.
  72. A massage parlor.
  73. Transportation used in high point is mainly done
  74. with the use of cars.
  75. In the diagram,
  76. we can see that the primary establishments
  77. around the Big Brothers Big Sisters facility.
  78. Each building is within a 10 mile radius of Big
  79. Brother Big Sister with hallelujah baptist church being at 100.6 miles
  80. atrium, Health Wake Forest baptist Clinical Pharmacy
  81. being 3.2 miles.
  82. Marathon gas station being 0.2 miles
  83. tobacco and Vape shop being 0.5 miles.
  84. Planet fitness being .3 miles
  85. Pershing Street, part being 3.9 miles walmart being 7.1 miles.
  86. Food line being 5.3 miles
  87. Outback steakhouse being 1.8 miles.
  88. High point University being 1.7 miles and Mcdonald's being 5.7 miles
  89. the perceptions of the interviewed
  90. community leaders.
  91. So I had the pleasure of meeting Chea Holden and Amy Lawson for them
  92. to enlighten me on the many different
  93. facts about the community surrounding this organization.
  94. Amy Lawson is Kia Holden's supervisor.
  95. She oversees the match support specialist and give them the
  96. tools they need to succeed as a phenomenal mentor.
  97. Kia Holden is a match support specialist who is someone that
  98. provides support to the Bigs and littles in these programs.
  99. She gives information on activities and holds match meetings
  100. to collect information on how her matches are doing.
  101. These two ladies expressed concerns of homelessness,
  102. poverty
  103. and insecurity and food insecurity.
  104. When speaking about the families in their community.
  105. They discussed with me the goals of the organization and it was to decrease poverty,
  106. increased social emotional skills and increased school improvement.
  107. They helped me understand that poverty stricken homes sometimes have
  108. the lowest education due to the education of their parents.
  109. If the parents felt that education was unnecessary,
  110. then it would most likely not be a priority.
  111. Moving on to the major strengths and weaknesses of Big Brothers
  112. and Big Sisters and of high point north Carolina script.
  113. Number one of Big Brothers Big Sisters at this program promotes social and
  114. emotional development that builds resilience and promotes
  115. mental and health and well being.
  116. I was struggling with two strength number two of half
  117. point community Resources which includes United Ways of Guilford and Forsyth
  118. High Point University, Guilford Technical Community College Franklin College,
  119. High Point Police Department, Boys and Girls Club of Guilford Local churches, U.
  120. N. C. G.
  121. Um North Carolina Central University and nine other area school sites in half point
  122. um, weakness.
  123. Number one of Big Brothers Big Sisters is the lack of parents support on weakness.
  124. Number two of high point north Carolina is that the
  125. crime rates and the poverty rates are extremely high.
  126. Moving along to the recommendations of the Brothers and Big Sisters
  127. recommendations to increase effectiveness and decrease problems in the
  128. historical organization and community.
  129. So our recommendations for this organization
  130. include more age appropriate community participation.
  131. Food drives,
  132. family involvement activities and adding the job
  133. of a community resource social worker.
  134. More age appropriate community participation
  135. would help the Children be excited about having
  136. a big It would also increase community involvement
  137. and possibly result in an increase of Children
  138. in the program.
  139. Food drives would decrease food insecurity and
  140. provide the families of Big Brothers.
  141. Big Sisters
  142. with nutritious meals.
  143. Lastly adding the job of a community resource social worker could
  144. be helpful in order to make all of these things happen.
  145. So thank you for your time.
  146. And if you have any questions or you would like to reach out to Big
  147. Brothers and Big Sisters to volunteer or to um supply them with any resources.
  148. Um you can contact them or email them or you can reach out to the president for our ceo.
  149. Thank you for your time again.