Academic Success Programs.
Cathedral City, CA
We are invested in the academic success of every member, every year and have a 100% graduation rate to show for it.
We partner with parents, schools, and other community stakeholders within our community to ensure that all Club members advance and graduate from high school and beyond, on time, and with increased confidence. Learn more about our current Academic Success Programs below:
Academic Success through Power Hour/Project LEARN
Power Hour helps Club members of all ages achieve academic success by providing homework help, tutoring, high-yield learning activities, and encouraging members to become self-directed learners. By participating in Power Hour, members can earn positive incentives such as snacks, parties, field trips and more.
Academic success through S.T.E.A.M.
S.T.E.A.M. is a program based on educating students in five specific disciplines — Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. S.T.E.A.M. education encompasses every aspect of our lives. Boys & Girls Club of Cathedral City S.T.E.A.M. programs help bridge the gap between S.T.E.A.M. and real-world scenarios, we focus on hands-on, project-based learning, for students to explore the various disciplines that S.T.E.A.M. has to offer.
Academic success through Reading Intervention
Readers are Leaders is a program that teams up young members of the Boys & Girls Club of Cathedral city with teen leaders. In our small group setting, one-to-one takes place not on a basketball court or athletic field but at a reading table. These students find the encouragement, support, and high expectations that will lead to their enthusiasm and growth as readers. The teens change as they invest their time to help these kids—change because they begin to understand the responsibility and power of being a role model, and change because they have developed bonds with these younger students and helped them experience the rewards of reading. This summer break, fall break, and winter break not only eliminates summer reading loss but our young people actually gain in reading performance.
Academic success through One-on-One Tutoring
One-on-one tutoring is a personalized learning experience where a tutor focuses solely on a student’s academic needs. Tutors can assess a student’s strengths and weaknesses, identify learning gaps, and tailor their teaching style to suit the student’s learning style. This can help students make progress at their own pace and focus on areas where they need more help. One-on-one tutoring can be used to help students learn how to read, write, and do math, and can also help students who are struggling with skills in these areas.
Child Safety FAQ’s
Any employee interested in moving to another Boys & Girls Club is required to have a reference from the previous Club, even if the Clubs are within the same community.
Boys & Girls Club of Cathedral City has comprehensive safety policies in place that protect youth – including, but not limited to, supervision, transportation, communication and prohibiting private one-on-one contact.
We encourage all staff, members, and families to report any incident or situation they feel is unsafe. Through our national partnership with Praesidium, one of the nation’s leading safety experts, the Boys & Girls Club of Cathedral City members and staff have access to a confidential 24-hour toll-free Child Safety Hotline, 866-607-SAFE (7233) or email SafeClub@Praesidiuminc.com.
Boys & Girls Club of Cathedral City continually updates robust safety policies, programs and training for our staff and volunteers that are designed to promote child safety and protect young people from threats that are present in our society.
We comply with federal, state, and local safety laws, including those impacting facilities and vehicles.
Boys & Girls Club of Cathedral City staff and volunteers have all mandated reporters. We are required to report any critical incident/safety concern to local authorities immediately. We are also required to report any critical incident to Boys & Girls Clubs of America within 24 hours.
Boys & Girls Club of Cathedral City has a dedicated safety committee to provide input and guidance on local policies and safety strategies. Members of the committee are made up of the Palm Springs Unified School Board, Chief of the Cathedral City Fire Department and a Commander in the Cathedral City Police Department.
Ongoing training and supervision of staff is critical. We participate in a wide variety of child safety training such as social, emotional, & physical well-being and emergency preparedness. We also engage leading third-party safety experts to provide guidance for our policies and approaches, including Praesidium, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and the National Children’s Advocacy Center.
Mandatory criminal background checks are required every year for every staff and board member at the Boys & Girls Club of Cathedral City In addition, criminal background checks are required for any volunteer who has direct contact with children.
We complete a safety assessment each year to ensure we continually make improvements to safe practices at our Clubs.