{"id":35073,"date":"2023-03-24T17:44:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/big-brothers-big-sisters-seeks-volunteers\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T23:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:44:27","slug":"big-brothers-big-sisters-seeks-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/big-brothers-big-sisters-seeks-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c5b17f9f-b3e3-53f7-ac66-4f689a9f3c74&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" alt=\"Adults and high school students may apply to be Big Brothers and Big Sisters. (Stock photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Adults and high school students may apply to be Big Brothers and Big Sisters. (Stock photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Big Brothers Big Sister of San Juan County is recruiting adult and high school volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Research shows the children who participate in the program are 46% less likely to begin using illegal drugs, 27% less likely to begin using alcohol, 52% less likely to skip school, 33% more confident in their school performance and 40% less likely to get arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Adult volunteers participate in the community-based program where Bigs and Littles participate in activities in the community for four to six hours per month.<\/p>\n<p>High school volunteers participate in the site-based program where Bigs meet Littles during or after school for one hour per week. Activities include educational games, homework or talking about dreams and aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>To apply for either program, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbbs-cnm.org\/about\/san-juan-county\/\" id=\"link-21d25e26eab841320d98531e80f9d8c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.bbbs-cnm.org\/about\/san-juan-county<\/a> or contact Neilson Francisco at <a href=\"mailto:Nfrancisco@bbbssjc.org\">Nfrancisco@bbbssjc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adults, high school students invited to apply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-35073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-community","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35073"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=35073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}