Priority Outcome Areas

Curriculum at the Boys & Girls Clubs is designed to help youth and teens achieve in the following priority outcome areas of:

• Academic Success
• Graduate on time, motivated to learn, with a plan to succeed in today’s modern workforce
• Good Character & Leadership
• Develop strong character and take actions that make a difference in the community
• Healthy Lifestyles
• Make healthy lifestyle decisions resulting in social, emotional and physical well-being
• Life & Workforce Readiness
• Prepare kids and teens for success after high school

Core Program Areas

Boys & Girls Clubs offers tested, proven, and nationally recognized programs in 5 Core Program Areas that closely align with the developmental needs of all young people:

• Leadership & Service
• Education
• The Arts
• Health & Wellness
• Sports & Recreation

Leadership & Service empowers youth to support and influence their Club and community, sustain meaningful relationships with others, develop a positive self-image, and respect their own and others’ cultural identities.

Positive Action
Positive Action is based on the intuitive philosophy that we feel good about ourselves when we do positive actions. The essence of the program is to emphasize those actions that promote a healthy and positive cycle.

Positive Action develops and reinforces positive actions in the physical, intellectual, social, and emotional areas in a fun and easy way.

Youth learn about:

• Self-concept
• Positive actions for your body and mind
• Managing yourself responsibly
• Getting along with others
• Telling yourself the truth
•  Improving yourself continually

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathmatics)

Using a cross-disciplinary approach that channels young people’s natural curiosity into the design process inherent in the arts, BGCA’s STEM programs empower youth to create new solutions to real-world challenges. This project-based approach develops critical thinking, problem solving and other 21st Century skills critical to success in the STEM workforce and beyond.

MindWorks

Collaborative exploration is front and center in this immersion into STEAM-based activities. MindWorks students are challenged to creatively problem solve, discover innovative ways to address real world challenges, and to transform the ordinary into extraordinary. Using design-based thinking, students will explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) in ways that will change the way they think about the world in which they live.

Keystone

Keystone is the BGCA's most dynamic teen program. It offers teens an opportunity to gain valuable leadership and service experience. Teens conduct activities in four areas: academic success, career exploration, community service, and teen outreach.

Power Hour

Power Hour helps Club members ages 6-18 achieve academic success by providing homework help, and high-yield learning activities, and encouraging members to become self-directed learners.

The Arts

The Arts enable youth to develop their creativity through knowledge and appreciation of the visual arts, crafts, and creative writing.

Health & Wellness

The purpose of the wellness policy is to assure an environment that promotes and protects participants' health, well-being and ability to learn by supporting healthy eating and physical activity, thus promoting and encouraging participants to adopt lifelong healthy behaviors that can enhance enjoyment and effectiveness in life, reducing the risk of chronic disease.

Wellness Policy

Our Wellness Policy supports healthy eating habits and physical activity by promoting and encouraging participants to adopt lifelong healthy behaviors that can enhance enjoyment and effectiveness in life, reducing the risk of chronic disease.

MyPlate

MyPlate illustrates the five food groups that are building blocks for a healthy diet using a place setting for a meal. Use it to find your healthy eating style and build it throughout your lifetime. Before you eat think about what goes on your plate. 

Triple Play Program

The Triple Play Program strives to improve the overall health of youth by increasing their daily physical activity, teaching them good nutrition, and helping them develop healthy relationships.

Triple Play Healthy Habits:

Healthy Habits is the "Mind" component of the Triple Play program. The Healthy Habits curriculum focuses on making choices that support a healthy eating pattern and physical wellness. This targeted program is made up of interactive practical activities that develop a young person's ability, confidence, and motivation to eat healthy for life.

Triple Play Social Recreation:

The "Soul" component of the Triple Play program encompasses the social recreation activities that are critical to positive youth development. This new, targeted program builds the skills a young person needs to make healthy choices through cooperative, group-based activities that develop a young person's confidence in themselves  and connection to others.

Triple Play Daily Challenges:

The "Body" component of Triple Play promotes becoming more physically active through a variety of games, cooperative activities, and sports that develop a young person's ability, confidence, and motivation to be physically fit.

Back Pocket Program Hints, Too

Back Pocket Program Hints, Too is designed to support the Triple Play program. It offers hundreds of activities that can be played at a moment's notice - and gets youth excited to become more active. These activities can also help create and environment for developing healthy relationships with peers and adults.

Play Breaks

Play Breaks are designed to increase physical activity in and around the Club. It includes a wide variety of fun, age-appropriate activities that can be played at a moment's notice, indoors or out. Play Breaks are five-minute bursts of games and dance moves designed to increase physical activity and help members develop heathy lifestyles.

Sports, Fitness, & Recreation

Sports, Fitness, and Recreation programs develop fitness, positive use of leisure time, stress management skills, and appreciation for the environment.