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To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential, as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential, as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland is a youth develop organization serving children who reside in the most destressed areas of Bradley & Polk County. During these hard econmic times the members of the Boys & Girls Club need our support more than ever before.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland has placed seven different sites located in neighborhoods with a distress indicatior of 10. These are areas where 95 - 100 % of the children are on free and reduced lunches and 35% of the 18 - 25 year olds have not graduated from High School.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland has served to meet the needs gaps by providing an after school program Monday - Friday that focuses on academic success, health & lifestyle programs, and character & leadership development. All programs are implemented by caring professional adult staff with the help of peer leaders.
Without the Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland many of these children are destined to repeat the lifestyle of the surrounding community of poverty, followed by destress, followed by low productivity & apathy, followed by drug & alcohol involvement, and often followed by crime. Many will not complete their High School Education and therefore receive a gauanteed lower yearly income.
90% of Boys & Girls Club Alumni graduate from High School. 26% of alumni are likely to earn a college degree. 57 % of alumni say the Boys & Girls Club saved their life.
1. All members of the Boys & Girls Club will achieve academic success.
2. All members are equipped with the necssary skills to live a healthy lifestyle
3. All members develop good character and become leaders in our community