The Boys & Girls Clubs of Garden Grove have been providing positive places
for children to go during non-school hours, particularly when there is no
adult at home, since 1956 - long before the word "latchkey" became a part of
our vocabulary!

Currently, we administer five school-age centers year-round: Boys and Girls
Club, Edgar Branch, Stanford Branch, Patton Branch, and Clinton Branch. These sites serve more than 1,200 boys and girls (5 -17 years old) every day, from 7:00 a.m. until
6:00 p.m. Evening and weekend activities are provided for teens.

Our Family Campus, provides licensed toddler and preschool childcare and
school readiness for more than 100 children daily, as well as enrichment
programs, computer center and a Family Resource Library.

Families can also come to us when they are in crisis, through our Family and
Youth Outreach services located at Garden Grove's Juvenile Justice Center
and the Truancy Reduction Center at Hare High School. These programs are
designed to accommodate the special needs of our community, offering a
referral program, truancy reduction services, parent education classes,
family support, juvenile offender education, drug education, and individual
and family counseling.

We continue to expand upon our collaboration with Garden Grove Unified
School District to provide After School Enrichment Programs at ten
additional school sites and REACH for Literacy (Reading Education for Adults
and CHildren) English language instruction for parents, offering language
instruction and homework assistance to children 2 years old to 8th grade.
REACH hopes to increase the literacy in the home, empowering parents as
their child's first and most important role models.

New this year is our partnereship with Children's Hospital of Orange County,
Healthy Smiles for Kids of Orange County, and The Children and Families
Commission of Orange County to bring needed pediatric medical and dental
services to children. BGCGG will offer the ARCHES (Access to Resources,
Counseling, Health, Education and Support) program at the health center
focusing on child counseling and family support. ARCHES will enhance and
complement the traditional children's health service delivery model by
expanding assessments beyond the physical to ensure the needs of the whole
child are met. The Children's Health & Dental Center is now open!

We provide much more than quality supervision at an affordable cost;
character-building, education, and enrichment opportunities are recurrent
themes in all of our core programs. Orange County (central O.C.,
specifically) leads the nation in the need for care for children, as
dictated by the high cost of housing, the large percentage of single-parent
families, and the increasing number of immigrant families. Boys & Girls
Clubs of Garden Grove is a leading advocate for quality programs to meet
this critical need.

We realize that our role is important in today's world, because families
truly depend on us to take an active part in their children's lives. This
means that in addition to teaching arts and crafts, cooking and sports, we
must teach socialization and living skills in a positive and nurturing
environment, and provide homework assistance and academic support to assure
success in school and in life.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Garden Grove is a proud member of Boys & Girls
Clubs of America, which serves more than 4.4 million children at over 3,700
club locations in the United States and abroad.

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