CareerLaunch
CareerLaunchTM is a career exploration and mentoring program for teens ages 13 to 18.  This program includes the CareerLaunch Web site that allows teens to take an interest survey, explore careers, identify training or college requirements, seek out financial aid and play skills-building games.  There's also an easy-to-use Career Exploration Quick Reference Guide with a broad range of career planning and job skills activities that Club staff or volunteers can use with teens.  The CareerLaunch Portfolio contains a Teen Tips booklet with helpful interviewing and on-the-spot job tips. Program development sponsored nationally by Gap Foundation.

CLUBService
This program, the result of a partnership between Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorps), provides education awards to Club members ages 17 and 18 and Club alumni ages 19-24 who serve their Clubs and communities.    CLUBService recognizes young people's service, helps them access higher education opportunities and encourages them to pursue future careers as Club professionals.  Program Development sponsored nationally by AmeriCorps.

Goals For Graduation
Goals for Graduation introduces Club members ages 6 to 15 to the concept of academic goal setting.  In one-on-one sessions with Club professionals, members set achievable "Know-I-Can" goals, more challenging "Think-I-Can" goals and yearly "Believe-I-Can" goals, then create action plans.  The program provides for recognition of members' achievements at every step of the journey.  Program development sponsored nationally by Macy's South and MetLife Foundation.

Junior Staff: Cultivating Tomorrow's Club Professionals Today
Junior Staff is a program that assists Club members ages 13 to 18 explore a career in youth or human services, particularly Boys & Girls Club work.  Young people prepare for future roles as human services professionals by participating in career development activities, discovering the importance of community service, building customer service skills and completing a Club apprenticeship.  Program development sponsored nationally by AT&T.

Money Matters: Make It Count
Created nationally with the Charles Schwab Foundation, this financial literacy program was designed specifically to help teens (ages 13 to 18) expand their knowledge of money management and learn the skills that lead to financial independence and well-being.  The Money Matters: Make It Count program consists of five components: Teen Personal Finance Guide, Program Facilitator's Guide, Money Matters Web site, Schwab eEmployee Volunteer Program and the Money Matters Awards.  Via the volunteer component, Schwab employees can pass financial expertise to Club teens through their volunteer involvement.

Operation SMART
Recognizing that the job markets of the future will require a background in science and math, Operation SMART provides opportunities for young people to explore science, math and relevant technology.  Through hands-on, interactive programming, young people are engaged in a series of discovery projects designed to enhance their competency and interest in these critical areas.

Power Hour: Making Minutes Count
A comprehensive homework help and tutoring program, POWER HOUR is designed to raise the academic proficiency of Club members ages 6 to 12.  Programs in this core area enable youth to become proficient in basic educational disciplines, apply learning to everyday situations and embrace technology to achieve success in a career.

Project Learn
Project Learn reinforces and enhances the skills and knowledge young people learn at school through "high-yield" learning activities at the Club and in the home.  Based on Dr. Reginald Clark's research that shows fun, but academically beneficial activities increase academic performance, these activities include leisure reading, writing activities, homework help and games like Scrabble® which develop youth's cognitive skills.  Project Learn emphasizes collaborations between Club staff, parents and school personnel.  Formally evaluated by Columbia University, Project Learn has been proven to boost the academic performance of Club members. 

Skill Tech: Basic Training
Skill Tech is a hands-on program that appeals to members of all ages and technical abilities. Through three levels of animated lessons (available in English or Spanish exclusively online at www.bgcayouthnet.org) for members and instructor-led group activities, members learn skills in various Microsoft software programs, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher and Digital Image Pro.  Program development sponsored nationally by Microsoft Corporation

Skill Tech II
Skill Tech II teaches advanced, yet practical technology skills to Club members. It features three eight-session modules (available in English or Spanish exclusively online at www.bgcayouthnet.org) for beginner, intermediate and advanced skill levels.  Participants learn about hardware identification and installation, networking and technology-related careers. Program development sponsored nationally by Microsoft Corporation.

Strategic Approach for Academic Success
Boys & Girls Club professionals are informal educators and strive to ensure that all Club youth, through their experiences at school and with the Club, are able to make good post-secondary education decisions. This vision identifies key objectives and strategies for working with members ages 6 to 12 and 13 to 18. BGCA helps local Clubs combat problems that contribute to low high school graduation rates by implementing localized activities and strategies with rigor, emphasizing more intentional integration of programs across core program areas and conducting and sharing findings of evaluation efforts.  Program development sponsored nationally by Macy's South and MetLife Foundation.

TUNEIn to Reading
TUNEIn to Reading is a literacy intervention software program that utilizes the power or music to address the five core areas of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.  The intent of this program is to increase young people’s reading levels so that they can begin to read on grade.  Each member completes a pre-Cloze test online to determine their appropriate instructional reading level and obtain base-line data in order to determine the individual reading gains.   This test is correlated to the Qualitative Reading Inventory, the only one accepted by both the Florida Center for Reading Research and the United States Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.

Once a level is determined, participants use a micro-phone headset linked to a computer, read on-screen lyrics three times, and then sing a series of songs which are assessed instantly on-screen.   The program uses an advanced speech recognition technology that tests for fluency and offers corrective feedback down to the specific letter and phoneme being mispronounced.   A score is calculated based on their performance and they are able to see their voice on-screen as a white pitch-tracking line, which they try to keep within blue "in-pitch" boxes.

Immersion Presents
When kids get out of school, the last thing most of them want to do is more school-work. That’s why the Immersion Presents programs have been designed to be fun, first and foremost.  But there’s also a whole lot of science going on! Immersion Presents and local Boys & Girls Clubs develop and carry out exciting multi-media programs to engage young people in after-school adventures, giving them a better understanding of research, exploration and the natural environment.

In 2002, Dr. Robert Ballard and Dr. Stephen Coan founded Immersion Presents—a non-profit science education organization that brings ocean adventures and discoveries from Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration, the University of Rhode Island and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration to kids in classrooms, after-school settings and informal learning arenas.

In our constantly changing world, Immersion Presents helps students understand the positive roles that science and technology play in their everyday lives.  Immersion exposes students to ongoing scientific expeditions in an effort to ignite their interest in real discovery and learning.

[Dr. Robert D. Ballard – oceanographer most noted for his work in underwater archaeology.  Long associated with the National Geographic Society, he is most famous for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismark in 1989 and the wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998.]