Health & Life Skills
Cultivating Self-Respect
Living Healthy
Setting Goals
Making Good Decisions
Healthy Habits -- A variety of programs that promote smart food choices, activities to develop a lifelong love of being fit, and good hygiene. CPR and First Aid classes also are available.
SMART Moves -- Helps young people positively handle the peer pressure of substance abuse or premature sexual involvement. More than simply emphasizing a "Say No" message, the program uses discussion and role-playing to develop assertiveness, resistance and refusal skills and positive outcomes.
SMART Girls -- A health, fitness, prevention/education and self-esteem enhancement program for girls ages 8 to 17. The program is designed to encourage healthy attitudes and lifestyles that will enable young women to develop to their full potential.
Passport to Manhood -- Promotes and teaches responsibility for young male Club members ages 11 to 14. Small-group discussions address critical issues for young men, such as ethics, decision making, wellness, fatherhood, employment and careers, cooperation and conflict, diversity, relationships and self-esteem.
StreetSMART -- Counseling young people how to effectively resist gangs and violence, resolve conflicts and be positive peer helpers in their communities.
UPS Road CodeSM – Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, accounting for more than one in three teenage deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The UPS Foundation has partnered with Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) on a national program to teach safe driving techniques to teens . Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago is proud to have been selected to receive a grant this year to implement UPS Road Code, bringing this critical life-saving initiative to our more than 75 teenagers at our Clubs.