Our Youth Development Strategy:
Boys & Girls Clubs believe that four components are essential to successful character development. These four components are the backbone of our youth development strategy. Club programs and services promote and enhance the development of boys and girls by instilling:
*a sense of competence, the feeling that there is something boys and girls can do and do well;
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sense of usefulness, the opportunity to do something of value for other people;
*a sense of belonging, a setting where young people know they “fit” and are accepted; and
*a sense of power or influence, a chance to be heard and to influence decisions. Our Vision Statement:
“Boys & Girls Club will seek to make a positive and life-long impact on our community’s children. Young people will have a safe place to go every day after school, as well as on Saturday and during school vacations. Our proactive, preventive programs will be of the highest quality and responsiveness in order to guide children beyond the snares and stumbling blocks in their lives. We will support them with consistent encouragement, professional guidance and instruction and life-changing opportunities. Club experiences will cultivate understanding and appreciation of a diversity of cultures. Club members will become successful, productive and caring citizens…
How we help others will be our measure of success. We will not only equip our young people with a membership card, but with a vision and moral compass. Individually and collectively, we will form a constant in the lives of our children…”
