In California, 11% of young people fail to graduate from high
school on time, 15% of high school youth have been involved in a
physical fight and 39% of children are overweight or obese. At the
Boys & Girls Club of El Dorado County Western Slope, 95% of
our teen-aged members expect to graduate from high school, 87%
expect to complete some kind of post-secondary education, 49%
of our teen members volunteer in their community at least once
per month and 78% of our Club members get at least an hour of
physical activity a day.
The Boys & Girls Club of El Dorado County Western Slope
has been serving the youth of El Dorado County for more than
20 years. We started as a single Clubhouse housed in an old
Placerville armory building serving fewer than 40 children a day.
We have since grown to serving more than 500 children between
the ages of 5 and 18, over 65% of whom are financially disadvantaged
attend the Club daily at one of our four sites across the
Western Slope: Placerville, El Dorado Hills, Georgetown and
Pollock Pines. Our home is now a 15,000 sq. ft. facility, “The Jim
& Maureen Carter Family Boys & Girls Club.” Without the support
of the Carter family and the incredibly generous El Dorado
County community, our organization would only be able to serve
a small fraction of the children we serve today.
Our mission is to enable all young people, especially those
who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive,
responsible and caring citizens. Every child who walks through
our doors receives a first class youth development experience that
focuses on academic success, good character & citizenship, and
healthy lifestyles. In 2019, the Club served over 140,000 homemade
meals, delivered thousands of hours of STEM learning,
fine arts, computer instruction, music, sports, gardening, cooking,
financial literacy and recreation programming, and provided oneon-one
mentoring to hundreds of children. At the Boys & Girls
Club of El Dorado County Western Slope, we do “Whatever it
takes” to ensure that GREAT FUTURES START HERE.
“Our Club and this entire
community is better off because of
Jim Carter and Carter-Kelly, Inc. His
desire to help the Club comes from his own
experience as a Club kid in Richmond. He
has made a point to ensure the community
he lives in has a safe and positive place for
young people to learn and grow.”
SEAN McCARTNEY
CEO, Boys & Girls Club
of El Dorado County Western Slope
TO LEARN MORE OR SUPPORT THE CLUB PLEASE VISIT WWW.BGCE.ORG
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