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This Week's Program

Due to the generosity of an anonymous and very generous donor, we are excited to announce the launch of our Family PLUS Program.

The Family PLUS Initiative develops youth by strengthening families within the Boys & Girls Club organization. Seeking to empower and strengthen adults in their familial roles, Family PLUS builds on the premise that broad-based programming for parents and caregivers will enhance family stability, develop caregiver competencies and promote the healthy development of children.

We feel as though the five components listed below are essential to the current needs of the families that we serve.

• Kinship Care – This component provides knowledge and resources to extended family members (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, foster parents, etc.) who have assumed the role of primary caregiver.
• Father Involvement – Clubs provide support and promotion through programs, activities, training and services to help increase the positive involvement of fathers in the lives of their children.
• Economic Opportunity – Focusing on empowering families, the economic opportunity component helps families find and keep jobs, increase earnings, build savings and establish credit.
• Mentoring – Youth mentoring is the process of matching mentors with young people who need or want a caring, responsible adult in their lives. Adult mentors are usually unrelated to the child or teen and work as volunteers.
• One-Stop-Shop – This is a model that combines resources and information for multiple health and human services from a single location. Our families, often are not always fully aware of the vast number of resources that are available in the community and how to access those resources. Parents often get frustrated having to go to multiple locations and speak to multiple people in an attempt to access services and resources. Therefore, it is our goal to bring information and a level of awareness of the many local resources and services that are available under one roof. Resources that will address, but not be limited to, the following commons needs that our families challenged by poverty often need include:

  • Public Assistance (Food stamps, etc.)
  • Food Assistance (Food bank & other meal related resources) 
  • Affordable/quality child care
  • Employment
  • Affordable/quality housing
  • Mental health
  • Health care assistance
  • COVID-19 related wellness and nutrition education (preventing/addressing underlying health issues)
  • Legal assistance  

We are excited to have Nate Tyler on board to lead our Family PLUS Program. Nate is a fairly recent retiree from the City of Thomasville and brings a wealth of knowledge and resources to the program.

Posted by Susan Backofen
March 16, 2021

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