BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS
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Mission Statement
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
About This Cause
Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos (BGCSM) is open to kids and teens in the community, ages 6-18, ensuring they have access to opportunities and healthy growth. Serving youth at one standalone facility, seven school campuses, and five low-income housing sites, BGCSM strives to provide all youth with the tools they need to build a brighter future regardless of socioeconomic status. BGCSM traditionally delivers after school programs that emphasize three priority outcomes: academic success, good character and citizenship, and healthy lifestyles. In response to COVID-19, BGCSM reopened its main branch as a Distance Learning Center to support working families and provide youth with access to tutoring and homework help, reliable internet connectivity, social-emotional wellness programs, programs to complement schoolwork and prevent learning loss, and physical fitness that allow for social distancing in a safe environment. Of our overall Club membership, 95% are from economically disadvantaged families with 55% falling within the extremely low income range, 31% are from single parent households, and 77% are Hispanic. The 2017 Annie E. Casey Kids Count Data Center reports that Latino kids were more than twice as likely as their Caucasian peers to live in poverty, and nearly one-third of all Latino children were growing up poor (as of 6/20/18 -- and representing a majority of our service population).