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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rockland should like to thank two Girl Scout, Heart of the Hudson, troops for adopting two families from our 1-to-1 community program by providing much needed holiday gifts and a delicious holiday dinner. We love seeing youth in our community understand the need to give  to people suffering hardship -  especially during the holiday season! Thank you from the BBBS family and those families you so kindly helped!!

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rockland County held its Annual Holiday Party in December and it was a blast. We had a full house and all of the participants had such a great time! We should like to thank the Rockland Independent Insurance Agents for its sponsorship of the 2017 Party, DEC Copiers and the Rotary Club of New City, together with many anonymous donors, for sponsorship of gift cards presented by Santa, to [...]

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rockland sends another huge “Thank You” to Kevin Hogan from Seats of Dreams, for once again providing an experience one more of our lucky families will never forget! This time, Seats of Dreams provided a family in our 1-to-1 community mentoring program, with tickets to watch the New Jersey Devils play on November 11th at the Prudential Center. Little Sister Neveah, her friend and her mother, Lashannon, all had a fantastic time attending their first ever ice hockey game! [...]

L to R: Big Sister, Janelle and Little Sister, Nicole Big Sister, Janelle and Little Sister, Nicole had such a great time, having received tickets courtesy of Seats of Dreams, to attend "Home for the Holidays" in New York City! The BBBS family cherishes the support Seats of Dreams has given us over the years and extends sincere appreciation to Kevin Hogan for once again providing an experience our Bigs and Littles will never forget.

L to R: Big Sister Cheryl, Big Brother Ed, Big Sister Ellen, Big Sister Ouida, Big Brother Marvin and Big Brother Julian. Big Brothers Big Sisters should like to thank all those wonderful and valued mentors (Bigs)who attended our Annual Mentor Support Group Meeting, in November. It was great to see the Bigs in this setting and to receive and address updates and concerns regarding their work as mentors and to learn how fulfilling the program is for them personally. We should also like to thank Moes of Nanuet for providing us with “Moes Bucks” to raffle of and provide levity at our mentor meeting !! Thank [...]

 L to R: Aferdita Sinanaj – Facilitator, Mental Health Association of Rockland; Amy Beth, Skill Building Speaker and Life Coach; Sidney Spaschak, Facilitator, mental Health Association of Rockland and BBBS Program Director for the Rockland County Mentoring Collaboration, Celeste Bester. R: Dr. Shelly, Mental Health Association of Rockland and Amy Beth, Skill Building Speaker and Life Coach Presenter. Hooray for the presenters, hooray for the participating students, hooray for Sister Barbara from Dominican College, hooray for the partnership [...]

Thank You to Panera Bread of Nanuet for hosting a fundraiser to support Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rockland County! Needless to say, we all loved the food and we are sure the many consumer attendees of the fundraiser did as well!! Once again, thank you for supporting Big Brothers Big Sisters and our mission - to provide long term 1 - 1 mentoring partnerships between our county’s troubled youth and qualified volunteer adult mentors. [...]

What a beautiful picture of Big Sister Ouida and Little Sister Angie – read on! "Angie and I attended the Head Start of Rockland, Inc. fundraiser event on Sunday, October 15, from 2-5 pm at Patriot Hills in Stony Point. HSOR honored Chair of Rockland County Legislature Toney Earl, Deputy Supervisor Isidro Cancel, and Michelle Kleinman, nutritionist from the Department of Health. Angie had the chance to speak to her former principal from Farley [...]

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rockland County should like to once again, thank Kevin Hogan from Seats of Dreams, for providing Big and Little tickets to see Faith Hill and Tim McGraw in concert on October 27th at the Barclays Center in Brookyln. Big Sister, Jackie and Little Sister, Laila had a super fantastic time. BBBS genuinely supports the incredible opportunities that Seats of Dreams provide to the Bigs and Littles in our 1-to-1 community program and exceedingly grateful to Kevin, who [...]

What an afternoon we had celebrating Halloween! As a consequence, all of us at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rockland County should like to thank the Old Stone Church in Upper Saddle River for its generosity in hosting our Halloween Party this year and to the many volunteers who made the occasion super wonderful! The Bigs and Littles enjoyed drinking the delicious green “Witches Brew” soda, eating scrumptious cookies and snacks, decorating the pumpkins, [...]

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rockland County should like to thank the town of Spring Valley for inviting us to attend Spring Valley Day on Saturday, September 2nd. Sincere gratitude is extended to our loyal volunteer Maria, as well as a Little Sister in our 1-to-1 program, Neveah, and her mother Lashannon, for representing our organization !!