Boys and Girls Clubs of Buffalo

Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo provides diversified activities that meet the interest of all youth in 5 Core Areas: Character & Leadership Development, Education & Career Development, Health & Life Skills, Sports, Fitness & Recreation, and The Arts.

Programs in these areas engage youth in activities with adults, peers and family members that enable them to enhance self-esteem, build positive lives, attitudes and behaviors, as well as develop to their fullest potential. Our programs provide young people with the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to pursue their dreams and succeed in life.

Character & Leadership

• Empowers youth to support and influence their Club and community, sustain meaningful relationships with others, develop a positive self-image, participate in the democratic process and respect their own and other's cultural identities.

Education & Career Development:  “Bridging the Gap” Program

• Has as its goal to help our youth be higher achievers in school. Some of the outcomes that derive from this goal include but are not limited to: good grades on school and state learning assessments; regular school attendance; enthusiasm for school and school work; determination to graduate at the end of high school; plans to pursue higher education; and reading is a major leisure time activity.

Arts

• Enables youth to develop their creativity and cultural awareness through knowledge and appreciation of visual and tactile arts and crafts, performing arts, and creative writing.

Health & Life Skills

• Develops young people’s capacity to engage in positive behaviors that nurture their well-being, help them to set personal goals, and develop the competencies to live successfully as self-sufficient adult.

Sports, Fitness & Recreation

• Develops fitness, positive use of leisure time, skills for stress management, appreciation for the environment, social and interpersonal skills.