Education and Youth Development
 These programs enable youth to become proficient in basic educational disciplines, set goals, explore careers, prepare for employment and embrace technology to achieve success in a career.
CareerLaunch
Career Launch TM is a career exploration and mentoring program for teens age 13 - 18. This program include the Career Launch Web site that allows teens to take an interest survey, explore careers, identify training or college requirements, seek out financial aid and play skills-building games. There's also an easy-to-use Career Exploration Quick Reference Guide with a broad range of career planning and job skills activities that Club staff or volunteers can use with teens. The CareerLaunch Portfolio contains a Teen Tip booklet with helpful interviewing and on-the-spot job tips. Funded by Gap Foundation.
CLUBService
This program, the result of a partnership between Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorps), provides education award to Club members ages 17 to 18 and Club alumni ages 19 to 24 who serve their Clubs and communities. CLUBService recognizes young peoples service, helps them access higher education opportunities and encourages them to pursue future careers as Club professionals. Funded by AmeriCorps.
Goals for Graduation
Goals for Graduation introduces Club members ages 6 to 15 to the concept of academic goal setting. In one-on-one sessions with Club professionals, members set achievable "Know-I-Can" goals, more challenging "Think-I-Can" goals and yearly "Believe-I-Can" goals, then create action plans. The program provides for recognition of members' achievements at every step of the journey. Funded by Macy's South and MetLife Foundation.
Junior Staff: Cultivating Tomorrow's Club Profesionals Today
Junior Staff is a program that assists Club members ages 13 to 18 explore a career in youth or human services, particularly Boys & Girls Club work. Young people prepare for future roles as human services professionals by participating in career development activities, discovering the importance of community service, building customer service skills and completing a Club apprenticeship. Funded by AT&T.
Money Matters: Make It Count
Created with the Charles Schwab Foundation, this financial literacy program was designed specifically to help teens (ages 13 - 18) expand their knowledge of money management and learn the skills that lead to financial independence and well-being. The Money Matters: Make It Count program consists of five components: Teen Personal Finance Guide, Program Facilitor's Guide, Money Matters Web site, Schwab eEmployee Volunteer Program and the Money Matters Awards. Via the volunteer component, Schwab employees can pass financial expertise to Club teens through their volunteer involvement.
Power Hour: Making Minutes Count
A comprehensive homework help and tutoring program, POWER HOUR is designed to raise the academic proficiency of Club members ages 6 -12.
Project Learn
Project Learn reinforces and enhances the skills and knowledge young people learn at school through "high yield" learning activities at the Club and in the home. Based on Dr. Reginald Clark's research that shows fun, but academically beneficial activities increase academic performance, these activities include leisure reading, writing activities, homework help and games like Scrabble which develop youth's cognitive skills. Project Learn emphasizes collaborations between Club staff, parents and school personnel. Formally, evaluated by Columbia University, Project Learn has been proven to boost the academic performance of Club members. 
Club Tech's Skill Tech Programs
Through the support of founding partner Microsoft and Best Buy Children's Foundation, BGCA offers the Skill Tech: Basic Training and Skill Tech II programs to all members of all ages and technical abilities. In Skill Tech: Basic Training members learn how to use various Microsoft software programs, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher and Digital Image Pro through animated lessons and instructor-led gorup activities. Skill Tech II features three modules for beginner, intermediate and advanced skill levels. Participants learn about hardware identification and installation, networking and technology-related careers. The Skill Tech programs, available at www.myclubmylife.com , are apart of Club Tech's mission to prepare America's youth for success in school and the 21st Century workforce.
Strategic Approach for Academic Success
Boys & Girls Club professionals are informal educators and strive to ensurethat all Club youth, through their experiences at school and with the Club, are able to make good post-secondary education decisions. This vision identifies key objectives and strategies for working with members ages 6 - 12 and 13 - 18. BGCA helps local Clubs combat problems that contribute to low high school graduation rates by implementing localized activities and strategies with rigor, emphasizing more intentional integration of programs across core program areas and conducting and sharing findings of evaluation efforts. Funded by Macy's South and MetLife Foundation.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
2010 Report to the Community
Read our Report to the Community for 2010. Read about the stories of change and transformation that our clients went through. Click here for the report.
Thursday, December 01, 2011
FALL 2011 NEWSLETTER
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Boys & Girls Clubs Evolution: Members Making the Grade
Once thought of as a place for neighborhood kids to hang out and play ball, today the Boys & Girls Club provides evidenced based programming in education, the arts, health and wellness and character and leadership development in addition to recreational activities for school children of all ages.
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Learning Across the World: Boys & Girls Clubs Members Awarded Two-Year Internships in Oceanography
Clubs members Devyn Jackson, age 14, and Tashawn Reese, age 16, were two of nine students selected from hundreds of international applicants for JASON’s National Argonaut program. During their two-year oceanography internship with The JASON Project — an independent 501(c)3 operated in association with National Geographic Society — Devyn and Tashawn will apply and expand the knowledge they have gained through their Immersion Learning experiences at the Club.
Monday, January 23, 2012
JANUARY IS NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH!
JANUARY IS NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH!
Last week Boys & Girls Club President & CEO Bruce Greenberg participated in a lively discussion about mentoring on WNIT's Economic Outlook. Bruce was joined by Dr. Gina Shropshire and Craig Horvath, Chair and Vice-chair of the Dream Team mentoring program for the South Bend Community School Corporation. Hosted by Phil D'Amico, the program underscores the positive impact mentoring has on the social, educational, and emotional development of children, particularly those from at-risk environments.
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