Our Programs
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Our Programs |
Core programs we provide include character and leadership development, education and career development, the arts, health and life skills and sports, fitness and recreation. It’s our goal to offer programs and services that will engage a wide variety of youth in a way that will help develop them into responsible adults who give back to their community.
Academic Success
College Bound
College Bound provides middle and high school students (grades 6-12) with academic case management, tutoring, and test-prep resources with a variety of activities designed to support academic success for each teen.
Bright Spot for Reading
This literacy program makes reading fun and engaging for kids through use of phonological awareness, vocabulary games, and reading contests. Bright Spot Reading uses incentives for the kids as they progress through the program.
Power Hour
This program provides Club professionals with strategies, activities, resources, and information to create an engaging homework help and tutoring program that encourages Club members ages 6-12 and 13-18 to become self-directed learners.
Money Matters
Money Matters promotes financial responsibility and independence among Club members ages 13-18 by building their basic money management skills. Participants learn how to manage a checking account, budget, save, and invest. They also learn about starting small businesses and paying for college. Money Matters features three components. The Teen Personal Finance Guide is a fun, attractive booklet containing practical tips and activities to help teens learn the important skills of balancing a checkbook, creating a budget, and saving and investing for college and retirement.
BE GREAT: Graduate
This is the dropout prevention program of Every Member, Every Year strategy. It is designed to enhance each youth's engagement with learning by:
Providing consistent support from caring and trusted adults
Developing the academic, emotional, and social skills necessary to achieve success
The program uses early warning signals in children 5 to 18 years of age by using attendance, behavior, and course failure to identify youth at risk of dropping out.
Ultimate Journey
This small-group program helps young people gain an understanding and appreciation for the natural world both globally and locally. This award-winning environmental education program leads Club Members on a fun-filled journey into the beautiful and amazing world of plants and animals. Through participation in games, crafts, and discovery-based activities, young people develop an awareness of the environment, acquire a better understanding of how human actions affect nature, reinforce math and science skills and learn about conservation of our natural resources.
Career Launch
Project Learn
Career Launch encourages Club members ages 13-18 to access their skills and interests, explore careers, make sound educational decisions, and prepare to join our nation's work force. Club staff and volunteers work with teens individually or in small groups to build their job-search skills and job readiness.
Project Learn reinforces and enhances the skills and knowledge young people learn at school during the hours they spend at the Club. This comprehensive strategy is based on research showing that students do much better in school when they spend their non-school hours engaged in fun, educational activities.
Project Learn also emphasizes parent involvement and collaboration between Club and school professionals as critical factors in creating the best after-school learning environment for Club members ages 6-18. Project Learn has been proven to boost the academic performance of Club members.
Through Project Learn, Club staff use all the areas and programs in the Club to create opportunities for these high-yield learning activities, which include:
Leisure reading
Writing activities
Discussions with knowledgeable adults
Helping others
Homework help and tutoring
Games, like Scrabble that develop young people's cognitive skills
Incentives to reward Club members for positive academic participation
Healthy Lifestyles
Healthy Habits
Healthy Habits is designed to incorporate healthy living and active learning in every part of the Club experience, Healthy Habits emphasizes:
Good Nutrition
Regular Physical Activity
Improving overall Well-Being
SMART Girls
SMART Girls is a health, fitness, prevention/education and self-esteem enhancement program for girls ages 8-12 and 13-17. Through dynamic, age-appropriate sessions, highly engaging activities, field trips and mentoring opportunities with adult women, Club girls explore their own and societal attitudes and values.
The program emphasizes building skills for:
Eating Right
Staying Physically Fit
Getting Good Health Care
Developing Positive Relationships with Peers and Adults
SMART Moves
This nationally acclaimed, comprehensive prevention program helps young people resist alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and premature sexual activity. SMART Moves features engaging, interactive, small-group activities that increase participants peer support, enhance their life skills, build their resiliency, and strengthen their leadership skills. This year-round program encourages collaboration among Club staff, youth, parents, and representatives from other community organizations. The program's components are: SMART kids for ages 6-9, Start SMART for ages 10-12, and Stay SMART for ages 13-15.
Date SMART
Date SMART is a supplement to SMART Girls and Passport to Manhood for Club members ages 13 to 18. Through fun and easy-to-use sessions, members learn how to achieve mutually supportive relationships free of violence and abuse. The program also encourages youth to become community advocates for relationships that promote equality and respect while combating the attitudes and behaviors that lead to dating, sexual and domestic violence.
Leadership
Torch Club
Torch Clubs are chartered small-group leadership and service clubs for boys and girls ages 10-13. A Torch Club is a powerful vehicle through which Club staff can help meet the special character development needs of younger adolescents at a critical stage in their development. Torch Club members learn to elect officers and work together to implement activities in four areas: service to Club and community, education, health and fitness and social recreation. The Torch Club Awards are presented annually to Torch Clubs with outstanding programs and activities in the four areas. Each year, Torch Club members from all over the country take part in a service-learning experience through the National Torch Club Project.
Keystone Club
Keystoning is the Boys & Girls Club Movement’s most dynamic teen program. It affords 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. Aaron's Inc. sponsors the Keystone Club program as part of a multi-year teen initiative; a strategic partnership between Aaron's Inc. and BGCA provides Clubs with the tools and resources to create a positive place for teens as well as for kids.
Youth of the Year
Since 1947, Youth of the Year has been Boys & Girls Clubs of Redlands-Riverside premier leadership program, distinguishing and celebrating the extraordinary achievements of Club members who embody the values of leadership, service, academic excellence, and healthy lifestyles. Each year, thousands of Club teens participate in local, state and regional Youth of the Year events. Six teens advance to the National Youth of the Year, where one outstanding young person is named National Youth of the Year. This national teen spokesperson is a role model, leader, and advocate for the millions of youth served by Clubs each year and all of America's young people.
Family Support
It’s a tough time for everyone, and we want to take care of families whose kids attend the Club. Help us as we provide food for families who might otherwise go without.
We offer free food distribution to Club families once a week at our Redlands clubhouse and the Drayson Center at Loma Linda University. Items include fresh produce and staples like cereal.
The program was started shortly after the COVID-19 shutdown in March 2020 to support Club families during the pandemic. We are happy to continue supporting our members’ nutrition and working parents.
Help Us, Help Our Kids
Help us fill the gaps for families in need during this stressful time.
Support Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Redlands-Riverside's efforts to provide food to our kids and their families. Click the link above to donate funds online.
Thank you!