A Day in the Life… - Boys & Girls Club

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8 5:00 p.m. It’s Club clean up time! With all of the Club’s youth development programs due to end at 5:30, it’s time to get all the Club members engaged in cleaning up the Club so it’s ready for another busy day tomorrow. Teaching our Club members to take care of their Club is an important part of how we teach kids to be responsible. 6:00 p.m. Children and families who’ve suffered the loss of a loved one gather to participate in the Center for Grieving Children, a peer support group operated by the Boys & Girls Clubs. The Center is a safe place where grieving children, teens and families in the Fox Valley area receive compassionate peer support, education, opportunities to remember and commemorate their loved one, and the chance to express their experiences and feelings in an accepting environment. The Center facilitates healing, removes isolation and builds a sense of hope. This evening's activities will include the planting of a memorial tree at Greenville Lions Park honoring all those in the children’s lives who’ve passed on. 7:00 p.m. Sarah Boes, Maxwell Jones and Leah Lingnofski, all with the Club through the Americorps national community service program, meet up with a group of teens they’ve come across at Pierce Park. The teens are there just hanging out, but among them are a few kids who haven’t been home for awhile and haven’t had much to eat in the last few days. Sarah, Max, and Leah conduct street outreach to teens throughout the Fox Cities as part of the Clubs’ work to connect with our community’s most high-risk and needy young people. Meeting with kids who might not come into the Club on their own gives Sarah, Max, and Leah the opportunity to share resources and give these young people a place to go if and when they might ever need help. Tonight, a couple of meal coupons courtesy of McDonalds are handed out along with several copies of the Clubs’ “Street Smart Card” which contains an extensive list of community resources. 9:00 p.m. As the Center for Grieving Children finishes and the last family member is out and on their way home, the lights go off and the doors are locked—but the work isn’t really done. Tonight it is Sarah Crawford’s turn, the Clubs’ Runaway Assistance program Director, to respond to calls to the Clubs’ 24-hour Runaway Hotline, providing crisis intervention assistance and whatever other kind of guidance might be needed to youth who have run away from their homes. Challenges • Poverty An estimated 40% of our Clubs’ 4,500 members are living poverty, including 22% who live in households with annual income levels below $12,000. • Family 60% of our Club members are not living with both of their birth parents. • Risk Behaviors 45% of the youth we serve in our Truancy Assessment Center self-report the illicit or abusive use of drugs and/or alcohol. • School Far fewer economically disadvantaged students in the Fox Cities score at the Advanced or Proficient levels on state testing as compared to their non-economically disadvantaged peers. 9
10 Who We Serve Total youth served 12,018 Total membership 4,537 Average daily attendance 665 for members only Membership Demographics Age 5–8 17.5% 9–11 21% 12–13 23% 14 –15 24.5% 16–19 14% Ethnicity African American 7.7% Asian 10.3% Hispanic 6.2% Multi-racial 4.7% American Indian 2.1% Caucasian 68.8% Other .2% Gender Male 54.6% Female 45.4% Household Income 2006 2007 $0 – $6,999 11.6% 13.1% $7,000 – $14,999 15.0% 14.2% $15,000 – $24,999 18.1% 17.7% $25,000 – $34,999 16.7% 17.4% $35,000 – $49,999 17.4% 17.3% $50,000+ 21.2% 20.3% % of low-income households 80% % of members living in poverty 40% Management Team Greg Lemke-Rochon Chief Professional Officer Randy Alt Director of Operations Patti Denton Director of Finance Roxanna Strawn Director of Development 2007 Officers Jeff Werner President Steve Seifert President-Elect Lee Allinger Past President Ted Goodwin Secretary Nancy Johnshoy Treasurer 2007 Board of Directors Beth Bax Terry Bomier Jay Bush John Carew Rhonda Fenner Chris Forslund Brad Gehring Rick Gorges Jeff Hunter Julie Huth Tim Kippenhan Beth Nemecek Kathy Plank Dave Rause Cheryl Schmidt Steve Seifert Amy Simon Roree Van Duyne Jeff Van Ekeren Ann Whalen Youth of the Year Cody Ozolins, 16 Appleton East High School 2007 Employee Award Winners Service to Youth Shelly Osborne Rising Star Dan Raddatz Outstanding Achievement Rachel Dehn Pat Albright Michael Binkowski Sarah Lashock Living Proof* There’s a difference between believing you’re making a difference and knowing you are. That’s why we work hard to prove the impact of the Club in young lives. Hard evidence is not always easy to come by in the human services arena, but in partnership with our national organization and through our own efforts, we’re pleased to say that we know our work changes — and even saves — lives. Developing Productive Youth • 79% of Club Members report the Club helps them do better in school. • 93% of Club Members report they plan to go to College. • 96% report that they understand they need to finish school to get a good job. • School attendance rates increase by more than 60% following services in the Clubs’ Truancy Assessment Center. • Nationally, 26% of Boys & Girls Club alumni are likely to earn a college degree, the same as the general U.S. population — a remarkable achievement given the start so many Club members have in life. Developing Responsible Youth • 76% of Club Members report they avoid participating in risky or dangerous behaviors, e.g., drug abuse and alcohol abuse. • 75% of Club Members care about how their actions affect others and demonstrate a commitment to acting on those beliefs. • Nationally, 85% of Club alumni said the Club helped them learn right from wrong. Developing Caring Youth • 91% of Club members would return a lost wallet they found. • 85% report they really care about how things they do might affect others. • Nationally, 92% of Club alumni say helping others is a priority and 81% said Club participation taught them to give back. Developing Healthier Youth • 83% of Club members report they have learned to be healthier at the Club. • Nationally, 57% of Club alumni said the Club saved their life. * Sources include the administration of the Outcomes Measurement Toolkit to 498 Club members from 1/1/07 to 6/30/08, school attendance records, and a national survey of Boys & Girls Club alumni conducted in 2006 and 2007. Professional of the Year Randy Alt Community Partnership Jaime Kriewaldt Spirit Valerie Seidel 11
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