The Frank Callen Boys and Girls Club focuses on four major programs: Education & Career, The Arts, Health & Life, and Sports & Recreation. The Education & Career program implements strategies to ensure members graduate high school and are ready for post-secondary education. The Arts program offers clay animation, digital art, and drama opportunities. Health & Life programs promote well-being, goal-setting, and independence through initiatives like Passport to Manhood and SMART Girls. Sports & Recreation helps develop skills, fitness, and healthy lifestyles through activities like golf, football, and baseball.

1. Building Our Future:
Frank Callen Boys and Girls
Club

2. You’re Wondering
What Programs do we focus on?➢ The Frank Callen Boys
and Girls Club wants to
enhance the children’s
overall being.
➢ There are four major
programs instituted in to
the afterschool program
at the Frank Callen Boys
and Girls Club.
Education & Career Health & Life
The Arts
Sports & Recreation

3. EDUCATION & CAREER
➢The Frank Callen Boys and Girls Club has implemented the
programmatic strategy Every Member, Every Year.
➢This program is used so that no matter their size or resources,
they can partner with youth, parents, schools and other
community stakeholders to implement at least one of three
approaches:
A. Academic enrichment and School engagement.
B. Targeted dropout prevention.
C. Intensive intervention and Case management.
➢ The Frank Callen Boys and Girls Club wants to ensure that all
Club members graduate from high school on time, ready for a
post-secondary education and a 21st-century career.
Educational &
Career
Programs
Money
Matters:
Make it
Count
Diplomas to
Degrees
(d2D)
Summer
BrainGain:
READ
My.
FUTURE
BE
GREAT:
Graduate
DIY STEM
2.0: Hands-
on STEM

4. THE ARTS
➢The Frank Callen Boys and Girls Club offers FOUR major art opportunities
for children to express their artistic side.
➢Clay Tech is a fun, hands-on introduction to animation for members,
especially those ages 13 to 18, that promotes the importance of teamwork and
provides an educational, engaging and fun experience. Members work in
groups to create clay characters and storyboards, then they film and edit their
own movies. Clay Tech exposes Club members to the art and science
involved in creating animation and introduces them to a variety of career
options of which they may be unaware.
➢Digital Art Suite & Festival is the Club Tech’s Digital Arts Suite teaches
members ages 6 to 18 how to create computer-generated art. The festivals
showcase members digitally created masterpieces.
➢Drama Matters Afterschool is a drama education program for Clubs that
encourages members ages 6 to 18 to engage in hands-on activities.
Clay
Tech
Digital Art
Suite & Festival
Drama
Matters

5. HEALTH & LIFE
These initiatives develop young people’s capacity to engage in positive behaviors that nurture their own well-
being, set personal goals and live successfully as self-sufficient adults.
Health and Life Initiatives
Passport to Manhood promotes and teaches responsibility in Club boys ages 11 to
14. Passport to Manhood consists of 14 sessions, each
concentrating on a specific aspect of character and manhood
through highly interactive activities.
S.M.A.R.T Girls is an outgrowth of the popular and effective SMART Moves
program, SMART Girls is a health, fitness,
prevention/education and self-esteem enhancement program
for girls ages 8 to 17.
S.M.A.R.T Moves Skills Mastery and Resistance Training)
prevention/education program addresses problems such as
drug and alcohol use and premature sexual activity.
Date SMART is a supplement to SMART Girls and Passport to Manhood
for Club members ages 13 to 18. Through fun and easy-to-
use sessions, members learn how to achieve mutually
supportive relationships free of violence and abuse.

6. SPORTS & RECREATION
These programs help develop
fitness, a positive use of leisure
time, reduction of stress,
appreciation for the environment
and social and interpersonal skills.
The PGA Sports Academy introduces youth,
ages 7 to 13, to the sport of golf to help young
people build character, and develop healthy and
active lifestyles.
ALL STARS:
A year-round
Team Football,
Basketball,
Dance, Cheer,
Step programs
and much
more.
WANNA PLAY? encourages youth ages 6 to 12 to
increase their overall fitness and health through
physical activity and improved nutrition education,
while learning the fundamentalskills of baseball and
softball.
RBI:
Reviving Baseball
in Inner Cities-
provides training
to Clubs wishing
to start or expand
boys baseball and
girls fast-pitch
softball leagues for
ages 13 to 15 and
16 to 18. RBI
teams representing
Club leagues are
eligible to
participate in
sports clinics.