Supper Club: Each clubhouse offers an after school hot meal to our members Monday through Thursday at 5:30. The meals consist of all the components of the food pyramid along with bread and milk served with every meal. There is a meal schedule posted for our members to review. There is an annual inspection done by a representative of the FDA as well as the director of each club site completes a yearly training / update. Staff serves the hot meal daily with the help of several members, who also assist with the cleaning of the entire room area.
The Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster serves supper to approximately 300 members per day. We developed this program to give our members an opportunity to learn healthy eating, how to eat properly, and the importance of hygiene manners.
Goals for Graduation: this is a project learn program that introduces academic goal setting to Club members ages 6 to 15 by linking their future aspirations with concrete actions today. In a variety of one-on-one, small group and large group sessions with Club youth development professionals, members set achievable "Know I Can" Goals, more challenging "Think I can" goals plan with daily and weekly goals leading to short and long members connect their smallest results to their highest dreams. An encouraging recognition strategy builds members as their successes are recongized and supported at every step of their journey.
Smart Moves: (Skills Mastery and Resistance Training ) -nationally acclaimed comprehensive prevention program helps young people resist alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, as well as premature sexual activity. The program features engaging, interactive small group activities designed to increase participants’ peer support, enhance their life skills, build their resiliency and strengthen their leadership skills. This year round program encourages collaboration among Club staff, youth, parents and representatives from other community organizations. The program’s components include Smart Kids for ages 6-9 focusing on the skills and knowledge for one to grow into confident and healthy teenagers by building social and life skills, Start SMART for youth ages 10-12 and Stay Smart for youth ages 13-15, targets resistance training and other critical skills needed to avoid alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and premature sexual activity, and SMART parents for parents of Club members participating in SMART Moves. The recent updating and revision of SMART Moves was made possible through funding from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund.
Smart Girls: was designed to assist our teen female members ages 8-12 years old, with developing a positive self-image. It also helps develop and a adopt a healthy attitude and lifestyle, as well as acquire and maintain a positive self-concept, sound decision-making skills and mentor relationships. There are two parts to the program one being “It’s Your Body,” which examines media influences on attitudes about females, personal values in dating relationships, date violence, date rape and sexual harassment, STDs, sexual myths and facts, importance of regular gynecological care, and the physical and emotional changes that girls experience.The second part called “Take Care of Your Body,” identifies ways to attain healthy eating habits, meeting specific nutritional needs, developing basic cooking skills, and becoming physically fit and active.
Act Smart - developed as a joint project between Boys and Girls Club of America and the American Red Cross, Act Smart is an HIV/AIDS prevention program designed for Club members ages 6-17. The program is presented in small groups.
Passport to Manhood - This program promotes and teaches responsibility and reinforces positive behavior in male club members ages 11-14. Passport to Manhood consists of 14 small group sessions, each of which concentrates on a specific aspect of manhood through highly interactive activities. Each participant is issued his own “Passport” to underscore the notion that he is on a personal journey of maturation and personal growth. The curriculum is an excellent complement to SMART girls.
Street Smart- This program counteracts the negative lures of gangs, violence and “street influences on young adolescents ages 11-13. While building awareness and resistance skills, participants develop the confidence and knowledge to make intelligent choices. Street SMART’s three modules teach young people how gangs work and how to resist being recruited, how to recognize and resolve conflicts peacefully, and how to become positive peer helpers. Participants reinforce what they have learned and share it with others by organizing community events to promote the positive messages of Street SMART.
G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training) - This program promotes crime prevention, involving law enforcement in an effort to advance positive relationships among the youth and law enforcement. This is not about arrest and reactive law enforcement. This is a program that reaches the members early and builds self-sufficient young adults. The Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster has initiated the G.R.E.A.T program to give young members the opportunity, tools, the mentors, and along with the Clubhouses A POSIIVE PLACE TO BE in order to find the right path in life. This program also will help improve the quality of life in the city and provide a positive relationship among the youth, their community and the police departments. This program was started recently in one Clubhouse with the intentions to spill out into the other 3 Clubhouse.
Cavity Free Zone was developed in response to the recent U.S. Surgeon General’s report on oral health, which revealed a silent epidemic of oral disease in America, especially among disadvantaged youth. This program is underwritten by Crest and aims to improve the oral health of our Club members nationwide. Through program materials and a Web Site to educate youth (ages 6-18) about oral health and collaborative efforts with local dental schools, dental societies and other health care agencies, Cavity Free Zone will be a catalyst for change in providing dental services to disadvantaged youth.
Tawny Threats "I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for the Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster. I went to the Lancaster General Hospital School of Nursing for my RN and I'm currently transferring to another institution and majoring in Biology."
Supper Club: Each clubhouse offers an after school hot meal to our members Monday through Thursday at 5:30. The meals consist of all the components of the food pyramid along with bread and milk served with every meal. There is a meal schedule posted for our members to review. There is an annual inspection done by a representative of the FDA as well as the director of each club site completes a yearly training / update. Staff serves the hot meal daily with the help of several members, who also assist with the cleaning of the entire room area. 
Goals for Graduation: this is a project learn program that introduces academic goal setting to Club members ages 6 to 15 by linking their future aspirations with concrete actions today. In a variety of one-on-one, small group and large group sessions with Club youth development professionals, members set achievable "Know I Can" Goals, more challenging "Think I can" goals plan with daily and weekly goals leading to short and long members connect their smallest results to their highest dreams. An encouraging recognition strategy builds members as their successes are recongized and supported at every step of their journey. 
Smart Moves: (Skills Mastery and Resistance Training ) -nationally acclaimed comprehensive prevention program helps young people resist alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, as well as premature sexual activity. The program features engaging, interactive small group activities designed to increase participants’ peer support, enhance their life skills, build their resiliency and strengthen their leadership skills. This year round program encourages collaboration among Club staff, youth, parents and representatives from other community organizations. The program’s components include Smart Kids for ages 6-9 focusing on the skills and knowledge for one to grow into confident and healthy teenagers by building social and life skills, Start SMART for youth ages 10-12 and Stay Smart for youth ages 13-15, targets resistance training and other critical skills needed to avoid alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and premature sexual activity, and SMART parents for parents of Club members participating in SMART Moves. The recent updating and revision of SMART Moves was made possible through funding from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund.
Smart Girls: was designed to assist our teen female members ages 8-12 years old, with developing a positive self-image. It also helps develop and a adopt a healthy attitude and lifestyle, as well as acquire and maintain a positive self-concept, sound decision-making skills and mentor relationships. There are two parts to the program one being “It’s Your Body,” which examines media influences on attitudes about females, personal values in dating relationships, date violence, date rape and sexual harassment, STDs, sexual myths and facts, importance of regular gynecological care, and the physical and emotional changes that girls experience. The second part called “Take Care of Your Body,” identifies ways to attain healthy eating habits, meeting specific nutritional needs, developing basic cooking skills, and becoming physically fit and active.
