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Boys And Girls Club Of Benton County
Our Mission: In partnership with family and community, the Boys & Girls Club of Benton County commits to provide the facilities, programs and services to enable and inspire our youth to realize their full potential.
Our vision: As a nationally recognized youth organization, we aspire to serve the youth of Benton County through expansion of staff and facilities, which reflect the needs to our growing region. Our qualified and diverse leadership team will provide the environment for development of life skills to promote strong families and communities.
Description:
We operate four facilities serving school-age children in after school and summer developmental programs. The Boys and Girls Club actively seeks to enrich the lives of kids that other youth agencies fail to reach and we are dedicated to ensuring that our community’s youth have greater access to life-enhancing, quality programs and services that will shape their future.
After School and Summer activities are at the core of our youth development programs. Health, Life Skill, Character and Leadership, Athletic, Pro-Social, Mentoring, and Family Support programs are complimentary. The programs are structures so that youth rotate from Art, Physical Recreation, Social Recreation, and Technology by age-groupings. The After School program includes Power Learning - a tutoring/homework assistance activity to assist kids catch-up and keep-up in their assigned school work. Power Learning is the program we are proposing to expand and strengthen.
Special developmental programs are available for enrollment on a schedule throughout the year. SMART Moves, an age-appropriate training assists youth set goals and resist peer pressures to use drugs and alcohol. Pro-social youth clubs and activities give kids opportunities for positive associations as alternatives to gangs. Health Habits assists kids to make good food choices and combat the trend towards obesity and Money Matters helps kids understand the importance of savings and goal setting. The BGC Family Support project is a model outreach and referral program for families in-need. The BECOME A STAR mentoring project for children with incarcerated parents matches high risk children with mentors. The BGC sponsors Athletic programs that served over 1,200 youth in basketball, football, volleyball and cheerleading.
History:
The first Boys & Girls Club of Benton County opened its doors on September 21, 1993, thanks to the support from the United Way of Benton County and the dedication of our founder, Keith Penn. The Boys and Girls Club of Benton County has grown from a small building serving a fer children to four stand alone facilities serving thousands of children. The club is chartered by the Boys & Girls Club of America, the largest and fastest growing youth organization in the world.
Bentonville - McKinney Unit
Bentonville - HLM Teen Center
Bella Vista Unit
Rogers Unit
Contact people:
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Jacob Hutson, Chief Executive Officer, (phone), (email)
Sabrina Rampy, Director, Community Outreach, (phone), (email)
Keith Nicholson, Operations Manager, (phone), (email) |
Office fax number: (479) 273-5981
Address:
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2801 North Walker AvenueBentonville, AR 72712(See a map) |
Web Site: http://www.bgcbentoncounty.org
Directions:
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Take exit 88 off of I-540. |
| Last updated on October 29, 2009 |
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