BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR
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Mission Statement
our mission to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. We achieve this through quality programs and services in an environment that is safe, nurturing and inspiring.
About This Cause
One of the oldest Clubs in the Los Angeles area, the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Los Angeles Harbor was established in 1937 as the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Pedro. Since our inception, we have stayed true to our mission to provide the most at-risk children of our Los Angeles Harbor community with the same growth and development opportunities too often only experienced by their more affluent peers Today, the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Los Angeles Harbor serves over 12,000 youth each year and is the largest private daily service provider to at-risk children in the entire Los Angeles Harbor/South Bay area. By the end of 2014, we will be operating 16 sites, serving over 2,250 children daily. We offer over 35 distinct classes/activities, the widest range of programs and activities on a daily basis than any other youth serving organization in the area. While we are proud of all the programs we provide to the children in our community, our successful and innovative College Bound Program has become our signature program. The goal of this comprehensive program is to increase the number of Los Angeles Harbor Boys & Girls Club youth entering into colleges and universities after high school. College Bound was created in 2002 to address the appallingly low number of San Pedro Club members who were going onto college after high school. Twelve years ago, only half of our San Pedro teen Club members were even graduating from high school and only a handful of those were thinking of going to college. Since 2002, we have seen the graduation rate of our teens increase from less than 50% to 98%! This past year we saw 98% of our seniors graduate from high school and 97% of them entered 2 or 4 year colleges this past fall.. We ensure that all teen Club Members focus on academics daily, providing free daily tutoring and homework assistance. Youth receive an array of resources that are not readily available or even accessible to the majority of our youth. These range from SAT prep classes, intensive scholarship application workshops, a financial aid fair, and college credit courses. Weekly activities, like A-G college requirements and writer’s workshops, provide youth with knowledge and valuable information. Exposure activities, trips to universities, mentors, and guest speakers help students believe that college is an attainable goal. In 2013 we started our Arts Academy program to meet the demand for beginning to advanced instruction in fine arts, dance, music, video production, audio production, animation, game design and 3-D modeling as public schools no longer adequately sponsor these important learning and self-expression opportunities, and our highly at-risk and economically challenged youth cannot afford private lessons or arts “camps. For many years, we provided beginning to intermediate instruction in all of the arts modalities noted above in our Monday – Friday programming. However, this left far too many youth on “waiting lists” and did not provide more advanced training to those students who had the skill set and determination to develop further. To meet both challenges, we expanded our original “Comprehensive Arts Programming (CAP) Project and repackaged it as our new Arts Academy initiative by: 1) Expanding our arts facilities and hiring additional arts instructors for our Monday – Friday program to take children off of the waiting lists, and 2) Utilizing our predominantly “empty” facilities on Saturdays to sponsor 3 – 4 hour instructional periods for our more advancing arts program participants.