Boys & Girls Club of Winnipeg,  Norquay

Norquay School ~ 132 Lusted Ave. ~ Karen Dueck ~952-1859 ~ karend77@hotmail.com

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Winnipeg is a community-based youth-serving organization whose focus is both developmental as well as preventative. We help our members overcome the many barriers they face by increasing their resiliency - their ability to address issues and make good decisions for themselves. We give them the opportunity to relate to caring, interested people that are positive role models, and to increase their skill levels in critical areas of their lives.

We offer children and youth from all economic, cultural and social backgrounds access to the resources, supports and opportunities that will enable them to overcome barriers and achieve their positive potential in life.

We work together with families and volunteers in each community, in partnership with government and other organizations, to create healthy community solutions to providing children and youth with what they need for optimal development.

Our Programs:

• The Sport, Recreation and Physical Activity program area promotes physical fitness, participation in sports, positive use of leisure time and the development of social and interpersonal skills. 

• The Arts and Cultural Appreciation program enables children and youth to develop creativity and cultural awareness through participation in cultural experiences, creating visual arts and crafts, and exposure to the performing arts.

• The Education and Career Exploration program enables youth to develop skills, knowledge and an attitude that will help them in school and employment.

• The Health Awareness and Life Skills Development program develops young people’s capacity to engage in positive behaviours that nurture their own well-being, set personal goals, and acquire the skills to live successfully as self-sufficient adults.

• The Leadership and Service to Community program empowers youth to support and influence their club and community, sustain meaningful relationships with others, participate in the democratic process and respect their own and others' cultural identities

Volunteer Opportunities:

• Need adults to escort kids home from programs
• Need volunteers to contact parents to remind their kids to come to the 10-week programs
• Have volunteers so staff can take staggered breaks so they don’t have to close and lose kids (there’s an early program and a later in the evening program so staff gets a break between the two sessions)
• Need volunteers for ‘walking school bus’ to pick kids up on foot
• Need volunteer to gather feedback from parents on:
  •  how kids can commit to programs, see what the parents have to say,
  • How best to educate parents on enhanced programs and skill building.
  • Feedback from parents on positive changes from kids attending club,  to learn how the club can work with the parents to benefit the kids and the family as a whole
• Teen alumni who’ve been past participants of Boys & Girls Club, to come and work with current kids,
• Be involved in community service with the kids, young leaders in training,
• A once-a-week evening drop-in, for teens who’ve had to leave Norquay and go off to high schools outside the community, to help kids in grade 6 transition to high school, a mentoring capacity. Contact parents of kids who’ve moved on and find out what kinds of difficulties they’ve faced in going to the high schools
   

Boys & Girls Club of Winnipeg -- Administrative Office, 929 Main Street, Winnipeg MB  R2W 3P2; Tel: (204) 982-4940;  Fax (204) 982-4950;  Web http://www.wbgc.mb.ca

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