After School:
Programs to Develop the Full Potential of Students
The Boys & Girls Club of Chicago has a branch right in our school. They help students from 3:45 to 6:00 Monday thru Thursday. Students participate in homework clubs and get help with other school needs.
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The Union League Boys & Girls Clubs offers a wide variety of programs at our sites. These programs fall into three core program areas: 1. Academic Success, 2. Good Character and Citizenship and 3. Healthy Lifestyles.
Programs are further organized by age group within each area (ages six to seven, eight to ten, eleven and twelve, thirteen and fourteen, and fifteen to eighteen).
Homework Help & Tutoring
The Union League Boys & Girls Clubs offer daily after-school homework help and tutoring to all Club members. The program, let by both staff and volunteers, helps youth succeed in the classroom and encourages them to become independent learners. Power Hour, a homework initiative funded by Ross Stores, ensures that each youth who visits a Club spends a portion of his or her Club day completing homework.
Academic Enrichment: Access to Technology
All our Boys & Girls Clubs are equipped with a dedicated computer lab Our Clubs are resources to aid youth in completing school projects even though they don’t have access to technology at home. Our computer labs also provide Club members with access to STEM programming, robotics, Google coding programming and the UPS Road Code driving simulation program
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Embracing Tolerance – Building Confidence
Programs such as SMART Girls, SMART Moves and Passport to Manhood develop self-esteem and personal responsibility and address issues of bullying, prejudice and bigotry. Our trained staff moderate peer group discussions that help members broaden tolerance for others.
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Leadership Development
Torch Clubs (ages 10-14) offer our Club members the opportunity to elect officers and plan community service projects and social activities that instill leadership skills
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Community Service
We pride ourselves on encouraging Club members to serve their communities. In 2015, more than 500 of our members were engaged in a community-based service project.
Healthy Eating
Nutrition is the cornerstone of healthy lives. For many of the Union League Boys & Girls Club members, food they enjoy at our Club sites is their only source of meaningful nutrition outside of school.
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The Union League Boys and Girls Clubs’ commitment to providing nutritious after-school meals to our Club members is supported by the Chicago Food Depository and the gifts of generous donors.
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