Our Impact
OUR IMPACT
OUR IMPACT
     IMPACT PHILOSOPHY OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AUSTIN COUNTY 
FORMULA FOR IMPACT
Providing our members with the best possible Outcome-Driven Club Experience, they will achieve positive outcomes in the priority areas of Academic Success, Good Character and Citizenship, and Healthy Lifestyles.

The Outcome-Driven Club Experience has four components.

1. Five Key Elements for Positive Youth Development: These are fundamental to your overall program. They’re based on the results of a research project that studied many Clubs’ best youth development practices. The study articulated five key elements that Clubs and Youth Centers should implement to make a beneficial difference in young people’s lives:
  • Create a safe, positive environment
  • Generate fun and foster a sense of belonging
  • Encourage supportive relationships with peers and adults
  • Provide opportunities and set expectations
  • Offer recognition
2. High-Yield Activities are hands-on, interactive, fun experiences that intentionally develop and reinforce core skills explicitly taught through Targeted Programs and help support our three priority outcome areas.

3. Targeted Programs are sequenced learning experiences with specific objectives for building skills and knowledge, organized into five Core Program Areas. They are targeted to help youth achieve positive outcomes in one or more of the Formula for Impact’s three priority outcome areas.

4. Regular Attendance is important for deepening our positive impact on young people. We need to make sure they become members, attend often, and stay members as they grow up. When Clubs and Youth Centers use a youth-centered approach – where youth have voice, choice and autonomy – it helps to support frequent attendance and retention of members, especially through the critical teen years.

It is a proven fact that children are most vulnerable to negative behaviors if they are unsupervised during the hours when they not in school. This leaves many working parents with a dilemma. Most childcare options are costly and largely unregulated. That is where the Boys & Girls Clubs offers working parents a solution. 
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