The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale serve girls and boys between the ages of 6 and 18, with an emphasis on outreach to teens, gender inclusion and family involvement.
A Boys & Girls Club provides:
- • A safe place to learn and to grow
- • Ongoing relationships with caring, adult professionals
- • Life-enhancing programs and character-developing experiences
- • Hope and opportunity
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale is committed to developing self-esteem in our community's youth by instilling a sense of:
 Competence
The Club exposes youth to unique experiences and programs to build their self-esteem and to develop new skills.
Belonging
The Club offers a safe setting where youth of all backgrounds are accepted and nurtured by professionally trained staff and volunteers, and where peers are taught to respect and value differences.
Influence
The Club encourages youth to be heard and to influence decisions, developing leadership skills that they will take with them long after their Club experience ends.
Usefulness
The Club offers and encourages youth to participate in opportunities to help others.
Boys & Girls Clubs...
"The Club has been my everything.
It's been here through the great times, the really bad times and everything in the middle. I can't imagine my life without it."
- Kristina Fryman
2004 and 2006 Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale Youth of the Year and State Youth of the Year finalist
Are for boys and girls.
They offer a safe place for all children to call their own.
Have full-time professional leadership.
The professional, caring staff is supplemented by part-time staff and volunteers dedicated to helping youth.
Make sure that all boys and girls can afford to belong.
Financial assistance ensures that no child is ever turned away for economic reasons.
Are building-centered.
Club facilities are especially designed to enhance youth development.
Have an open-door policy.
Clubs are open to all members five or six days a week.
Have varied and diversified programs.
Club programs recognize and respond to the collective and individual needs of boys and girls.
Are guidance-oriented.
The Club emphasizes values inherent in the relationship between young people, their peers and adult leaders. They help boys and girls to make appropriate and satisfying choices in their physical, educational, personal, social, emotional, vocational and spiritual lives.
Do not discriminate.
The Club is for boys and girls of all races, national origins, cultures, religions and abilities. |
