{"id":371,"date":"2025-10-13T03:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:39:08","slug":"big-brothers-big-sisters-of-central-california-calls-for-male-mentors-to-help-young-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central California calls for male mentors to help young boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central California is looking for male mentors from across the Central Valley<\/p>\n<p>The BBBSCC says that 80 percent of the children, mainly boys, are facing long waits for a male role model.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Newsom launched the California Men\u2019s Service Challenge, calling for ten thousand men to step forward as mentors, coaches, and community leaders back in July.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Newsom said, \u201cThe lack of mentorship is leading to an alarming rise in suicide and disconnection among California\u2019s young men and boys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Erik Ia, from the Fresno Police Department, shared some of his experience being a mentor for 6 years.<\/p>\n<p>He said,\u201d Mentorship truly changes lives. I&#8217;ve seen it firsthand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central California has served children and families for more than 60 years in Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings, and surrounding counties, offering one-on-one mentoring relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central California is looking for male mentors from across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[705,706,112,114,113,709,708,704,710,711,707],"class_list":{"0":"post-371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-big-brothers-big-sisters","9":"tag-central-california","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-governor-newsom","14":"tag-male-role-model","15":"tag-mentors","16":"tag-mentorship","17":"tag-suicide","18":"tag-young-boys"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}