The New BGCA
The new Boys & Girls Clubs of America is not limited to an after-school program for children. In addition, the new Boys & Girls Clubs of America turns into a safe environment for all-round development. Becoming a positive supportive community, the mentor provides not only a solid foundation but also encourage children to reach their full potential.
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Back to school program
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Get on Board works with local schools to assist dropout middle and high school students to get back into school. The program advisors build a net of support and to connect parents to the school. These advisors, which meet during the school day, provide a structured way of enabling those supporting relationships to grow and thrive. The most effective advisory groups meet regularly, stay together for several years, and involve staff development that helps teachers support the academic, social, and emotional needs of their students. Also, Get on Board provides low-income children with backpacks and essential school supplies. Items are provided in partnership with retailers such as Target or Wal-Mart and other back to school programs.
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Create a solid foundation for the great future.
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Get on Board
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A travel agency
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Fearless Walkers holds several tours for different age group kids. Kids witness different cultures, religions, and ways of living with their eyes wide open. They may face all sort of challenges and need to solve problems together. Learning through travel, kids would have memoirs, experiences, and friendships that may change the course their life.
Open your eyes by traveling.
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Fearless Walkers
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Give Kids Choices
Make healthier food choices and knowing your body.
BGCA Health Center
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The Health Center Nutrition Service supports members of BGCA with the knowledge and skills needed to make and implement healthy nutrition choices. Working with nutrition coaches, the service educates children about a healthy life and body, reading nutrition labels, knowing where food comes from, designing their own nutrition plans and offers a cooking class for children. It’s to establishes healthy behavior and develop a healthy way of eating and the support needed to solidify this way of eating for a lifetime.
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Changing up Conversations
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Conference
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Changing Up Conversations is a conference, inviting speakers including child psychiatrists and children’s education experts, for parents of adolescents and kids and other trusted adults to enhance the connection and relationship between families.
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Making Connections Matter.
Future starts here!
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Goalreacher
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Job search agency
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Goalreacher is similar to job search agencies, helping high school and college graduates get their ideal jobs. The service includes several essential lessons like technical interviews, speaking skills, reverse recruiting, managing relationships to increase people’s career potential.
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Break the Wall
The power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
Interactive art institute
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Break the Wall promotes to exposure to the visual arts, especially in creative ways, expands a child’s awareness of the world and is a tool that can be used for learning science, history, and more. There are several workshops, family tours, children and family classes, educational programs increasing accessibility of exhibits for children. Children learn about different styles and cultures by using several materials techniques in the art classes. Also, there is a children’s gallery to exhibit members’ works and give families a connection between art and life.
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Healthy relationship education programs
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Lessons in Love offers opportunities to address the nonsexual components of adolescent relationships and complement many of the lessons in comprehensive sex education classes. Generally, these programs teach young people how to effectively communicate their needs and thoughts, negotiate differences and deal with conflict safely, determine their current and future relationship goals, and deepen their values and beliefs around family, partnerships and children. Healthy relationship curricula also describe the warning signs of potentially unhealthy or unsafe dating relationships and describe each partner’s rights and responsibilities around respecting each other.
Bring more happiness than stress into your life.
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Lessons in Love
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Knowing Your Roots
Explore the journey of life.
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A genetic research lab
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Knowing Your Roots is a genetic research lab. They learn DNA research and genetic engineering in the lab. Kids can unearth their family histories to help shape their own national identity. This is not only enhances the connection and relationship between family members, but also increases family coherence and cohesion.
Sports league
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Every year, BGCA holds a National BGCA Sports League to increase communication between different states, not only to promote communication between different clubs but also to increase children’s sense of honor and fitness.
Coming together is the beginning.
Staying together is progress.
Working together is success.
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National BGCA Sports League
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Heart to Heart
Let’s get together to support each other!
Workshops
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The Heart to Heart department organizes several workshops for all sorts of families, including parent coaching and consultation, child behavior and school support, clinical and special needs services. Heart to heart aims to help different kinds of families such as LGBQIA+ parents, immigrant families, families with disabilities, adoptive parents, grandparent-headed families, etc. to learn how to identify, embrace, and nurture kids who may have specific social-emotional and physical needs.
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