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Causes: Boys & Girls Clubs, Boys Clubs, Children & Youth
Mission: To inspire and enable youth ages 6 to 18 to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens, the boys and girls club of st louis provides recreational, athletic and educational facilities for youth in the metropolitan st. Louis community.
Programs: Herbert hoover (formally sportsmans park) club - this facility currently serves over 3,000 youth with an average of 250 youth attending daily. Open 48 weeks a year, five days a week, the 78,000 square-foot facility houses a vision clinic, aquatics center, learning center, and sports field, as well as a dental clinic, reading room, science room, technology center, game room, tennis courts, football field, gymnasium, art room, teen center, performing arts/dance studio, multi-purpose room, cafeteria and kitchen, fitness center, and a new music studio.
adams park club - this facility currently serves 650 children with130 members attending daily. The 28,000 square-foot center offerseducational, recreational and social activities, as well asteen-focused programs. The facility includes a gym, dance studio,fitness center, game room, computer lab, eyecare clinic, andsports field.
mentor st. Louis - mentor st. Louis serves approximatley 300 youth annually. The program matches caring adults with elementary school children to enhance literacy and reading skills, trigger discussions, creative thinking and build students' self-esteem. The school-based model operates a mentoring program at five st. Louis public elementary schools; and in roosevelt and normandy high schools, through boys and girls clubs' be great: graduate program. The afterschool model takes place at all club locations.
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