Madison Square Boys & Girls Club Inc

Healthy lifestyles programs: encourage our members to adopt a healthy diet, practice positive lifestyle choices, make a lifelong commitment to fitness, and support their mental health. Members participate in daily fitness challenges, and enjoy a wide range of intramural sports activities in the club gyms, pools and dance facilities. The clubs provide healthy food to our members on a daily basis, help young people make nutrition and wellness habits a daily practice, and empower youth to avoid tobacco, alcohol and drugs. In addition, madison offers one-on-one mentoring and listening circles for teens to help members process the challenges in their lives, including the trauma from the covid-19 pandemic. In 2024, 1,850 members participated in our healthy lifestyles programs.

Good character and citizenship programs: offer our members opportunities to develop leadership capabilities, build social-emotional skills and make a difference in their community. Members organize service projects, participate in gender-specific initiatives that focus on values development, and do advocacy work in their local neighborhoods. Teens can partake in the youth of the year program, the premier national recognition program for boys and girls clubs of america members, which honors young people who have distinguished themselves academically and socially through their positive actions. In 2024, 346 members participated in youth of purpose programs, 345 members participated in listening circles, 191 positive action sessions were offered, and 25 members participated in the youth of the year program.