In every community, boys and girls are left to find their own recreation and companionship on the streets. An increasing number of children are at home with no adult care or supervision. Young people need to know that someone cares about them.

The United States is facing a national crisis with soaring high school drop-out rates, coupled with drug abuse, low fitness and high obesity within our young people. Boys & Girls Clubs are providing solutions to this national epidemic through homework help, engaging and fun nutritional tips, energizing sports activities and challenging academic programs. The programs offered provide strong moral guidance, positive role models and life-changing educational programs designed to save kids from lives of crime and failure. Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas is an organization that stands for traditional values, while providing progressive programs that address the problems faced by the youth of today, including substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and gang violence. Today, thousands of boys and girls from low-income neighborhoods benefit from the building centered programs and services designed specifically for them at fourteen local Clubs. They are truly "The Positive Place For Kids".

More information about Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas is available on their website www.bgcdallas.org