Education & Career Development

These are just some of the key programs Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sequoias offers in the Education & Career Development Core Program Area.

Project Learn: Through Project Learn, Club staff use all the areas in the Club to create opportunities for high-yield learning activities, including leisure reading, writing activities, discussions with knowledgeable adults, helping others, homework help, and tutoring and games like Scrabble that develop cognitive skills. Project Learn also emphasizes parent involvement and collaboration between Club and school professionals as critical factors in creating the best after-school learning environment possible.

Power Hour: Making Minutes Count: This daily program designed to help Club members become more successful in school by providing homework help, tutoring, and by encouraging members to become self-directed learners.

Reading Partners is a school year reading program. Volunteers team up with kids read books, take short quizzes to test reading comprehension, and receive incentives for their participation.

Goals for Growth: This program teaches Club members ages 8 - 12 skills for setting and achieving goals, helps them identify their own strengths, and enhances self-esteem by reinforcing progress and recognizing success in realizing their goals.

Junior Staff Career Development: While working at the Clubs, participants learn valuable job skills for future careers while they run the front desk, supervise the gameroom, and maintain the membership tracking system.

Working On Our Future (WOOF): There are three components to this program that prepares high school students for life after graduation: Academic Success, Job Readiness, and Life Skill Development.

Money Matters: Make It Count is a program for Club members ages 13 - 18, sponsored by the Charles Schwab Foundation, promoting financial responsibility and independence by building teens' basic money management skill

Click here for a description of all Education and Career Development Programs.