Boys & Girls Club Services Privacy Pledge

To provide a safe, supportive place where children and youth can experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, build positive relationships and develop confidence and skills for life.

Our vision for Boys & Girls Club Services of Greater Victoria is to join with families and other community members to provide services to assist children, youth and families to develop the skills, attitudes, supports and self-perceptions they need to achieve their potential.

Imagine a community where the children on your block know your name and you know theirs. Where you can smile at them and ask them how they are doing and they smile back and tell you! Where the schools are not considered daycare centres and parents are not alone in their nurturing roles. Where businesses treat young people with respect and help them develop values and social competencies. Where workers in youth organizations and service agencies are no longer overwhelmed by trying to do too much with too few resources.

In short, imagine a community where all residents build caring relationships with children and adolescents and express this caring through dialogue, listening, commending positive behaviour, acknowledging their presence, involving them in decision making and doing things with them. And then imagine those children growing up to be caring, responsible citizens and passing along their legacy of love and nurturing to the children in their community.

Seem like an impossible dream? In hundreds of communities throughout North America a paradigm shift is taking place. Communities are adopting a positive vision and implementing initiatives to reclaim the responsibility for raising youth - responsibility for providing the foundation, the building blocks for life. These building blocks or "developmental assets" are powerful shapers of young people's behaviour and Boys & Girls Club Services of Greater Victoria was instrumental in introducing the “Healthy Communities-Healthy Youth concept utilizing these developmental assets to the Victoria community. Please go to the section on Developmental Asset Building for more information on this concept.
Together we know we can create a healthy community for all.