Character and Leadership Development
Youth of the Week
Three members will be selected weekly for their good behavior. Selected members will receive a certificate, Canteen coupon and an opportunity to participate in the end of summer retreat.
Torch Club
This program was designed as an arena for the juniors to voice their ideas and opinions and formulate the same into positive and productive program ideas for themselves and the club. This program allows the participants to: elect officers, as well as, work collectively to be agents of change, awareness and insight.
Keystones/Teen Advisory Board
This program was designed as an arena for the teens to voice their ideas and opinions and formulate the same into positive and productive program ideas for themselves and the younger members of the club, inclusive of fundraising. This program allows the participants to: elect officers, mentor younger club members, market and execute fundraising ideas, as well as, work collectively to be agents of change, awareness and insight.
Health and Life Skills
Nutritious Meal Program
Children are provided snack, as well as lunch. Additionally, the full-service Canteen will also provide food options for every youth at minimal rates.
SMART Moves
SMART Moves is designed to provide substance abuse and sex education by enhancing the individual’s self-esteem and character development. Through collaborative efforts from other community agencies, our club members participate in monthly peer groups to discuss issues relevant to their age and gender. This program allows children to openly and freely express themselves, ask questions, gain self-confidence and increase positive decision-making skills.
Triple Play
Triple Play focuses on “mind, body and soul”, as it relates to nutrition and physical fitness. Triple Play seeks to provide the children with nutritional training, such as: the food pyramid, reading and understanding food labels, healthy snack alternatives and identifying hunger cues. In addition, to nutritional training, the children experience daily physical challenges by engaging in basketball, jump rope, running/walking and creative game activities. This program seeks to actively educate and engage the children in the fight against obesity.
Sports/Recreation
Our club engages the members in five intramural sports teams (basketball, baseball, football, soccer and volleyball) and more than fifty recreational activities including, but not limited to: board games, pool, and outdoor playground facilities. This aspect of programming, teaches children good sportsmanship, teamwork, and promotes fitness and healthy living.
The Arts
Drum and Drill
Drum and Drill is a program that allows children to creatively compose unique percussion rhythms with the accompaniment of the drum major and majorettes to provide visual entertainment through dance and song.
Education and Career Development
Fun with Reading
The Bobcat library donated to the club in October 2007 and expanded in March of 2008 will provide a memorable, fun learning experience, promoting reading, literacy and use of a public library.
Computer Technology Lab
Our club is equipped with a computer lab with more than thirty computers where our children have access to Microsoft Office, Internet and the local public school system’s education tools, guides and learning manipulatives. The children use the computer technology lab daily to complete homework assignments, research topics of interest and play learning games.
Water Taxi
This program allows the teens an opportunity to travel along the waterways of southeast North Carolina via boat. The programs allows the participants to ride on a boat, learn appropriate nautical safety rules and procedures, as well as, view their local community from an alternate prospective; the sea versus land.
4-H Club
Community Boys and Girls Club in collaboration with the local 4-H agent have created a club that mirrors the interest of the participants. The Teen 4-H club, actively participates in activities, such as: arts and crafts, computer technology, dance/step, theater, photography, etc. Furthermore, the participants elect club officers and gain firsthand exposure to the United States political system, by visiting and observing local, state and national political procedures.
