•  A safe place to learn and to grow
•  Ongoing relationships with caring, adult professionals
•  Life-enhancing programs and character-developing experiences
•  Hope and opportunity

The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Redwoods is committed to developing self-esteem in our community's youth by instilling a sense of:

Competence
The Club exposes youth to unique experiences and programs to build their self-esteem and to develop new skills.

Belonging
The Club offers a safe setting where youth of all backgrounds are accepted and nurtured by professionally trained staff and volunteers, and where peers are taught to respect and value differences.

Influence
The Club encourages youth to be heard and to influence decisions, developing leadership skills that they will take with them long after their Club experience ends.

Have full-time professional leadership.
The professional, caring staff is supplemented by part-time staff and volunteers dedicated to helping youth.

Make sure that all girls and boys can afford to belong.
Financial assistance ensures that no child is ever turned away for economic reasons.

Are youth-centered.
Club facilities are especially designed to enhance youth development.

Have an open-door policy.
Clubs are open to all members five days a week.

Have varied and diverse programs.
Club programs recognize and respond to the collective and individual needs of girls and boys.

Are guidance-oriented.
The Club emphasizes values inherent in the relationship between young people, their peers and adult leaders. They help boys and girls to make appropriate and satisfying choices in their physical, educational, personal, social, emotional, vocational and spiritual lives.

Do not discriminate.
The Club is for girls and boys of all races, national origins, cultures, religions and abilities.