Olivet Boys' and Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa

Olivet boys & girls Club offers a variety of programs that support academic success, encourage healthy lifestyles, provide a robust engagement with the arts, and promote good character and citizenship. Olivet's programs are numerous and wide-ranging, affording Club members unique experiences in an environment of positivity, acceptance, and encouragement. The programs, furthermore, are research- and evidence-based, with many utilizing pre- and post-testing instruments to provide quantitative and qualitative data assessing and tracking program impact. Additionally, club-sites regularly recognize members for their achievements within the Club, such as actively participating, demonstrating leadership, and volunteering, to name only a few. See schedule o for additional program service accomplishments.throughout 2023, Olivet served over 2,261 youth ages 6 -18 across 7 club-sites in Reading and Berks county.in a typical year, our clubs are open for afterschool and summer programming. During the school year, clubs are open from 3 pm to 8 pm for afterschool programming, monday through friday. During the summer, clubs are open from 8 am to 5 pm for summer programming, monday through friday. From january through may of 2023, at each Club site, we provided approximately 500 hours of afterschool programming. During the summer of 2023, we provided 405 hours of summer camp programming. From september through december of 2023, we provided approximately 380 hours of afterschool programming. For 2023, this totaled approximately 1,285 hours of service at each Club site. We are fortunate to have numerous community partners that support and impact our programs by providing volunteers, services and/or program support. Centro hispano has served as our primary provider for serving nutritious, culturally sensitive meals to Club members. The following is a list of programs offered at Olivet boys & girls Club sites in 2023, along with the numbers of youth Club members who participated in those programs during that year: academic success and education chess Club: 334 high-yield learning activities: 953 project learn (homework help): 575 number of youth who maintained or improved their Reading skills during the summer months (as a result of participating in kidz lit): 30 number of youth who participated in stem programming: 100 national youth outcome initiative survey 90% of youth/teens surveyed expect to graduate on time 86% of youth/teens surveyed reported mostly grades of a's and b's, corresponding to being promoted to the next grade level healthy lifestyles, sports, and recreation 100 mile Club (walking program for girls): 30 jr. chef/cooking Club: 10 number of youth who received a nutritious meal: 2,261 the arts art/arts and crafts: 287 chorus: 48 drop da beat (digital music-making): 6 drums: 88 gravity studios (studio music production and recording): 5 guitar: 67 dance: 77 ballet: 38 good character, leadership, and service boy scouts: 133 girl scouts: 97 torch Club (service and leadership Club for pre-teens): 9