Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Community News.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Chattanooga is helping take “career day” to a new level. Last year, the nonprofit mentorship program launched “Beyond School Walls,” taking the format of its school-based programs, in which adult volunteers, or “bigs,” meet with student “littles” at their schools, and applying it to the workplace.
Littles are matched with a personal mentor, whom they meet at their workplace once a week to play games and get to know each other. Once a month, the employer organizes a “career day” for the students to learn about the employer’s career opportunities.
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To learn more, contact Emily Barrow at 664-8641 or emily@bbbschatt.org.
EPB employees participating in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Chattanooga’s Beyond School Walls workplace mentoring program roll out the red carpet for their sixth-grade mentees from East Lake Academy. (Contributed photo)
EPB employees are participating in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Chattanooga’s Beyond School Walls workplace mentoring program.“It helps as I’m growing up,” said Camren, a sixth-grader matched with Jeriel Allison, a business continuity executive at EPB. “He talks to me about life and what I want to be when I grow up,” explained Camren, who wants to be a lawyer.