Programs
The caring staff of the BGC of Three Districts offers a variety of quality programs for the youth of Crow Creek. Each program provides the youth critical skills needed for both academic and personal success.
Character and Leadership Development:
The Club offers programs that empower youth to support and influence their club and community, participate in the democratic process, and respect their own and other cultural identities.
Education and Career Development:
Enables youth to become proficient in basic educational disciplines, apply learning to everyday situations and embrace technology to optimize employability.
Health and Life Skills:
These programs develop young people's capacity to set personal goals and develop the competencies to live successfully as self-sufficient adults.
The Arts:
Art programs offered at the Club enable youth to develop their creativity and cultural awareness through knowledge and appreciation of visual and tactile arts and crafts, performing arts, and creative writing.
Sports, Fitness and Recreation:
These physical activities develop fitness, positive use of leisure time, skills for stress managements, appreciation for the environment, and interpersonal skills.
Current Programs at the BGC of Three Districts:
SMART Moves (Skills Mastery and Resistance Training):
This nationally acclaimed comprehensive prevention program helps young people resist alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, as well as premature sexual activity. The program features engaging, interactive small group activities designed to 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.
SMART Girls:
An outgrowth of the popular SMART Moves program, SMART Girls is a health, fitness, prevention/education and self-esteem enhancement program for girls ages 8-17. The program focuses on issues specific to female Club members and is designed to encourage healthy attitudes and lifestyles that will enable those members to develop to their full potential.
Money Matters-Make it Count:
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.
Power Hour-Making Minutes Count:
A comprehensive homework help and tutoring program, Power Hour is designed to raise the academic proficiency of Club members ages 6 to 12.
Project Learn:
Project Learn reinforces and enhances the skills and knowledge young people learn at school through “high-yield” learning activities at the Club and in the home. These activities include leisure reading, writing activities, homework help and games like Scrabble which develop youth’s cognitive skills. Project Learn emphasizes collaborations between Club staff, parents and school personnel.
Club Tech-NetSmartz:
NetSmartz is an internet safety program produced with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The program uses computer-based tutorials with state-of-the-art animation to deliver games to younger participants and interactive quizzes for teens. Lessons learned via the multimedia material are reinforced through interaction with and guidance from Club staff.
Youth for Unity:
A diversity education program designed to combat prejudice, bigotry and discrimination. Youth for Unity is the umbrella title for a comprehensive set of programmatic interventions that will allow Clubs to help members appreciate and understand our society’s diversity, recognize unfairness and take personal leadership in confronting bias.
Kids In Control:
A 4-H youth development program designed to build responsible behavior in youth who may care for themselves occasionally or daily.
Rookie League:
A sports program for the youth to play baseball and t-ball.
Character and Leadership Development:
The Club offers programs that empower youth to support and influence their club and community, participate in the democratic process, and respect their own and other cultural identities.
**NOTE: Descriptions of programs obtained from the websites of the Boys & Girls Clubs in Indian Country, (www.naclubs.org) and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (www.bgca.org).
