The Club Experience:
The Youth Club fills the gap between school and home. We provide welcoming, positive environments in which kids and teens have fun, participate in life-changing programs, and build supportive relationships with peers and caring adults.
Our Impact plan calls for the Youth Club to focus on three essential outcomes for Club members: academic success, healthy lifestyles, and good character and citizenship. While they are separate in many ways, they add up to the most essential outcome of all – young people who are prepared to enter the adult world as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Our Youth Club provides young people with:
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A safe place to spend time during non-school hours and the summer as an alternative to the streets or being home alone.
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A chance to play, have fun, laugh and learn.
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Opportunities to build new skills that raise each child’s belief that he or she can succeed and receive recognition for personal accomplishments.
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Ongoing relationships with caring adults and connections to new friends in a positive environment, reinforcing a sense of belonging, personal accountability, civility and civic responsibility.
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Generation-changing programs that support a commitment to learning, positive values, healthy habits and high expectations for success as an adult.