New Program Offered & New Staff Member Joins Big Brothers Big Sisters!

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Manchester serves over 300 youth each year from the Greater Manchester and Greater Concord communities and is proud to announce the hiring of Rachel Fender. Rachel will be joining the team as the Program Coordinator for BBBSGM’s new one-to-one mentoring program, CAPSS (Caring Adults Promoting Student Success), which will be offered to 60 incoming freshmen at Manchester Central High School this fall.

Rachel is an AmeriCorps VISTA, originally from Cincinnati, Ohio where she recently graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology and a certificate in Minority Health. She is excited to be living in the Greater Manchester area and is especially excited to be working with Big Brothers Big Sisters staff this year.

The CAPSS program is curriculum-based, technology-enhanced, and career and college-focused one-to-one mentoring that is the first of its kind in New Hampshire.  BBBSGM plans to offer this program to 60 additional Manchester Central High School students each year until every student at Central that would like a mentor is matched with one.  Mentors are college-educated business professionals from the Greater Manchester community who have four free hours a month to mentor a student throughout their high school and college careers. 

For more information about how you too can make a difference in a young person’s life and become a CAPSS mentor or donate to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Manchester, please visit www.bbbsmanchester.org or connect with Rachel at rachel@bbbsmanchester.org or (603) 669-5365 x210.

Funding to support CAPSS has been provided by the Cogswell Benevolent Trust, Lincoln Financial, St. Mary’s Bank and individual donors.