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Outside Agency Descriptions -continued <br />7. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle • <br />Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of the Triangle. offers two services, community-based and <br />school-based mentoring. Community-based mentoring provides mentors for children from <br />single parent homes or other children in need of adult mentors. These "Big Brothers and Big <br />Sisters" play an integral role in the lives of their "tittles" by being good listeners and guiding <br />these children in the right direction. School-based mentoring provides mentors to children <br />during and after school on their school's campus. Teachers, or key school staff, refer children <br />to this program who may need extra attention to build better social skills or who may be lacking <br />in a particular area of schoolwork. School-based matches last for one school year and may <br />continue into the next at the request of the parent, child, teacher or volunteer. <br />8. Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA -Boomerang <br />Boomerang is a community-based alternative to suspension programs for middle and high <br />school students in Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools. Boomerang provides a supportive <br />environment for students who are on short-term suspension, advocates for youth in the <br />community, and provides resiliency-based training to the community. <br />9. Chapel Hill-Carrboro Meals on Wheels <br />The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Meals on Wheels program uses volunteers to deliver nutritious <br />noonday meals with cheerful personal visits five days a week to those who are homebound or <br />recovering from surgery. In addition to delivering meals, volunteers bake homemade desserts <br />and help in the office, which is located in Binkley Baptist Church. <br />10. Charles House • <br />Charles House is an adult day care facility located in Carrboro whose goals are to prolong the <br />independence of older adults with disabilities and to provide respite for their caregivers. The <br />facility has a capacity for 19 older adults and has had a waiting list since June of 2000. <br />11. Child Care Services Association <br />The Child Care Services Association seeks to ensure that affordable (no more than 10% of a <br />family's gross earning are used to purchase childcare for one child), accessible, high quality <br />childcare is available for all young children and their families. <br />12. Chrysalis Foundation <br />The Chrysalis Foundation develops affordable housing for disabled adults and families in <br />Orange County, focusing on mental health, developmental and substance abuse disabilities. <br />Chrysalis develops housing that brings additional rental units into the affordable stock for <br />renters whose income is generally lower than 30 percent of area median income. Chrysalis's <br />housing activities include real estate development, property acquisition and renovation, <br />financing, grant writing and participating in local housing initiatives. <br />13. Club Nova <br />The mission of Club Nova is to serve adults in Orange County living with severe and persistent <br />mental illness and provide them with structured daily activities, as well as social, vocational and <br />residential opportunities that they would not otherwise have. <br />• <br />Page 2 of 8 <br />