Title: An Ounce of Prevention: Boys & Girls Clubs are saving the world one kid at a time
Type: Article [PDF]
Author/Source: Newsweek, October 28, 2007.
Abstract:
The 101-year-old Boys and Girls Clubs of America is an astonishing success story, second only to the black church as a source of stability in the inner city. It has more than doubled in size in the last decade, to 3,700 clubs in all 50 states (including 400 clubs in public housing projects and 200 on Native-American reservations), serving 4.4 million young people after school. That's still less than one third of the estimated 15 million at-risk youth, but it's a model that actually holds the potential to end this national shame--if we as a country could only focus on it.
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