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YOUTH MENTORING IS A
“NEED TO HAVE”
Future growth for BBBS in Canada means ex-
tending the impact of youth mentoring across
the country by ensuring governments at all lev-
els, corporate partners, individual donors and the
public recognize these cost-effective services
have demonstrated health and social outcomes
and are a “need to have”. That will mean work-
ing with other partner organizations to increase
access to youth mentoring programs, and it cer-
tainly means recruiting more volunteer mentors
and exploring opportunities for increased fund-
ing.
“Our biggest challenge as a not-for-profit, just
like every other not-for-profit in the country, is
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