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KUAF Community Spotlight

Community Spotlight - Big Brothers, Big Sisters of NWA

The Community Spotlight has teamed up with Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Northwest Arkansas to highlight Child Mentoring this month. Listen to segments below. For more: bbbsnwa.org.

bbbs_poverty_effects_on_youth_web.mp3
Sarah Van Vleck talks about the role of poverty on youth in NWA.

bbbs_comm_vs_site_based_services_web.mp3
Executive Director of BBBSNWA - Sarah Heimer - talks about the differences between Community and 'Site Based' services.

bbbs_lil_billy_and_big_jack_web.mp3
In this segment we hear from a "little" - Billy - and his "big" mentor - Jack.

bbbs_halberg_family_web.mp3
We meet the Halbergs - a local 'big family'.

bbbs_big_families_web.mp3
Sarah Van Vleck describes the importance of not only single mentors, but 'big families' as well.

bbbs_single_parent_stats_in_nwa_web.mp3
Sarah Van Vleck with single-parent children stats in NWA.

bbbs_becoming_a_big_web.mp3
Sarah Heimer details the steps to becoming a 'Big' for a child in NWA.

bbbsnwa.org

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Pete Hartman is KUAF's operations manager.
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