Boys and Girls Club of the South Coast Area
PROGRAMS
School Year and Summer Camp Programs
Several hundred youth ages 6-18 attend the Club weekdays outside of school hours. The programs above and many others, such as Drama Matters, Triple Play, and tutoring, are offered to help each child reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. During summer, the Club is open 7:30am-6pm during the week and offers field trips and themed curriculum/activities to keep kids entertained and engaged while stemming summer learning loss.
Parents have quality, affordable after school care for their child(ren). Youth have access to group and one-on-one opportunities to support them in academic success, healthy lifestyles, and good citizenship.
Parentis Reading Program
Led by the Parentis Foundation, the Reading Program provides local kindergarten through third graders in the Boys & Girls Club of South Coast Area program with access to literacy tutoring from highly trained volunteers age 50-plus. These volunteer tutors are paired with at-risk readers who enroll in the program and provide these students with one-on-one literacy tutoring twice a week for 30 minutes. The goal is to improve reading fluency skills, build self-confidence, and inspire academic success.
Since launched in 2017, the Parentis Foundation program has helped Clubs like ours by:
Providing more than 7,800 1:1 tutoring sessions to 200+ struggling readers
Helping 100% of student participants improve fluency and 42% achieve grade level proficiency
Increasing reading proficiency by half a grade level or more for 82% of student participants
Witnessing improvement in children’s overall self-confidence, behavior, and academic success
Brain Gain Program
Brain Gain is offered during the summer months and summer vacations. Club members are led in STEAM (science, technology, education, arts and math) projects which foster continued learning during down times from school. Each module takes a project-based learning approach where youth engage in a process of learning through discovery, creative expression, group work and a final project or production.
Each summer, an estimate 43 million children in the U.S. miss out on expanded learning opportunities that could prevent them from falling behind before the next school year begins. During the summer, most youth lose about two months' worth of math skills. Low-income youth also lose more than two months' worth of reading skills, while their middle-class peers make slight gains. To combat summer learning loss, Boys & Girls Club of the South Coast Area offers its Summer Brain Gain offers its Summer Brain Gain Program. While the average low-income U.S. student lost at least two months of learning last summer, the Summer Brain Gain participants did not. In fact, some Club members showed significant gains in math. As the premier out-of-school provider in San Clemente, we believe it's our responsibility to prevent the detrimental effects of summer learning loss.
College Bound
College Bound is a program for youth in 9th-12th grades and is designed to provide them with one-on-one mentoring with a college and career focus.
The long-term success of this program is to have every member graduate high school on time and then continue on to a college or university.
CONTACT
Boys and Girls Club of the South Coast Area
1304 Calle Valle
San Clemente, CA 92672
Phone: 949-484-0199