Smart Moves. A nationally acclaimed prevention program for young people 5-12. Smart Moves is a creative, fun, learning experience that provides boys and girls with the knowledge and skills they need to grow into confident, healthy teenagers. This program enables members to realize their full potential. Smart Moves also provides boys and girls with accurate information, resistance training, and other critical skills for avoiding alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, as well as peer pressure. This program encourages children to make appropriate decisions as they enter their teenage years.
Smart Moves. Smart Moves focuses on helping youth develop healthy decision-making attitudes and skills, with age-appropriate activities and lessons for youth in grades K - 12. The program teaches essential social-emotional skills that enable youth to communicate effectively, make healthy decisions, and refuse to engage in unhealthy behaviors. Smart Girls SMART Girls is a small-group health, fitness, prevention/education and self-esteem enhancement program designed to meet the developmental needs of girls in three age groups. Through dynamic sessions, highly participatory activities, field trips and mentoring opportunities with adult women, Club girls explore their own and societal attitudes and values as they build skills for eating right, staying physically fit, getting good health care and developing positive relationships with peers and adults. Passport to Manhood Passport to Manhood promotes and teaches responsibility in Club boys ages 8-17. Passport to Manhood consists of 14 sessions, each of which concentrates on a specific aspect of manhood through highly interactive activities. Passport to Manhood represents a targeted effort to engage young men in discussions activities that reinforce positive behavior. DIY STEM DIY STEM is a hands-on, activity-based STEM curriculum which connects youth aged 9- 12 to science themes they encounter regularly. Special attention is paid to connections of theory and application and the common interactions members have with these scientific principles. DIY STEM currently includes five modules: Energy and Electricity, Engineering Design, Food Chemistry, Science of Sports: Football. In addition to the above-listed Boys & Girls Club of America programs, we partner with local organizations providing our members with additional programming core to support the needs and interests of our community. Some of our current partners with whom we work are: • Girls Scouts offers their traditional Girl Scouts programming at both BGCGNH’s clubhouses and school sites. • First Tee teaches beginner golf activities, with a focus on character and empowerment during the summer. • Mindful Exchanges at Yale providing mental wellness and self-care basics during the summer. • Rock the Beat XX Xxxx utilizing the art of disc jockeying and hip-hop music to develop confidence and positive self-perception among youth during the summer. • LiveGirls offers women empowerment program at New Haven Clubhouse.
Smart Moves. 10 4.16.1 B&fiCS shall provide Skills, Mastery, and Resistance 11 Training (SMART) Moves services for to children ages six to twelve (6-12) 12 years who are at risk of abuse or neglect including those who are low-income 13 (hereinafter referred to as "PARTICIPANTS" for purposes of Subparagraph 4.16).
