Month: March 2023

Rain Does Not Stop the Opening of the Ron Estabillo Clubhouse In Guadalupe

The Guadalupe community celebrated the opening of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast Ron Estabillo Clubhouse with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 9th. The clubhouse is named after Ron Estabillo, a beloved community leader and a former city councilman who passed away in 2019. The new facility is the third Club operated… Read more »

Youth Development Professional of the Month–Annalise Leon

Annalise has been with our organization since August of 2021. Since then she has worked her way up to Club Director at Robert Bruce. She does an excellent job completing both her ASES and BGC tasks on time. She has great communication skills to make sure that everyone on her site is on the same… Read more »

Youth Development Professional of the Month–Jessi Reyes

Jessi has been a GREAT addition to our McKenzie site.  That site desperately need a male role model to work with our members.  Jessi is doing great with all our members at McKenzie, but especially with our boy members.  He also has been super flexible and helps cover at Santa Maria sites when needed on… Read more »

Club Members Give Tours of Their Club

The Almond Acres Boys and Girls Club held their Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on March 16th. This ceremony hosted many different community members, and the Boys and Girls Club members were excited to show them around their campus. The members led the visitors on tours around the classrooms as well as the outdoor… Read more »

Youth Development Professional of the Month–Emma Payne

Emma is a great member of our Almond Acres team! She always has super fun and well thought out activities planned for her group. Emma is amazing at taking initiative and is always optimistic. Thank you for all that you do.

Warm Event for Donors Keeps Things Cozy and Fun

On March 23st, donors, board members, volunteers and other supporters of Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast gathered at Derby Wine Estates to honor local community members whose gifts have sustained the mission of Boys and Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast. The event was an opportunity for the Clubs to express gratitude… Read more »

2023 Summer Basketball League Starting Soon

Registration Dates: April 3- April 24. This league will be co-ed and will be by Current grades K-7th. Season starts June 12 and will end week of July 27th. Games to be played Mondays through Thursdays depending on divisions. There will be a $10 late fee for registrations after April 24th.  For more information please contact:… Read more »

Smart Moves Kicks-Off At The Shandon Club!

SMART Moves: Emotional Wellness is a targeted program that supports Healthy Lifestyles. It builds the foundational social-emotional and health skills that will enable youth to make healthy decisions. SMART Moves is a suite of health promotion programs, focused on building the key attitudes and skills necessary for youth to make decisions about their health. This… Read more »

Craft time at the Creston Club

Members from the Creston Club really enjoy doing crafts at our Club. Every Monday & Wednesday the kindergarten Members get to do a different craft. Members get to practice their cutting, gluing and coloring skills which they have been getting better at it. We make sure to give our Members the help and support they… Read more »

Almond Acres Club Has Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening

On March 16th, a beautiful day in Paso Robles, California, community members, donors, and children gathered to celebrate the opening of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast Clubhouse at Almond Acres Charter School. The event was marked by a ribbon-cutting ceremony, signifying the official opening of the new clubhouse and a new… Read more »

Club Members Complete Triple Play Challenges

Triple play is a progressive curriculum that focuses on building movement skills and positive attitudes toward physical activity. The program consists of diverse games, cooperative activities and sports that develop a young person’s ability, confidence and motivation to be physically active. Our members looked forward to their triple play classes which happened twice a week…. Read more »

Success at Flamson’s First Stollmeyer Challenge Workshop!

The Teen Center at Flamson had a successful first workshop for the Stollmeyer Challenge! Our members got to create beautiful rainbow art work for the Mixed Media Rainbow Art session and had a fun time doing it. Our YDP Mel ran it very well and we look forward to our five remaining workshops we have… Read more »

First Grade Group Expresses Their Emotions

To kick off Spring Programs at the Almond Acres Club, the first grade group is participating in SMART Moves: Emotional Wellness. This program supports healthy lifestyles through the development of social-emotional skills. In this activity, the first grade group partnered up and chose an emotion to display. The class practiced recognizing emotions, and how to… Read more »

Learning About Rain & Clouds

Our Members were super excited to learn about rain especially since it’s been raining a lot here lately. We decided to do a simple experiment with food coloring, mason jars, shaving cream, and water to simulate how rain works and how clouds form. Our Members learned that water vapor rises into the air, but when… Read more »

Learning About Lungs

Our Members learned about how our lungs work using a paper bag, marker, and a straw. This activity was a great way for our members to learn some new words and their meanings. Some new vocabularly include: Trachea – a large touch tube that connects the top of the throat to bronchi (sometimes called a… Read more »

Smart Moves: Emotional Wellness

SMART Moves: Emotional Wellness is a program offered at the Creston Club. SMART is a national Boys & Girls Club program concept that stands for Skills Mastery and Resistance Training. In this program, we focus on building social-emotional skills, self-control, emotional awareness and helping youth develop healthy decisions making. Members get to express their emotions… Read more »

Alumni Open House Coming in April

All Alumni of Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast are invited to an Open House on April 27th at the Railroad Clubhouse in Santa Maria.  Enjoy a burrito bar, old school and new school games and activities, an opportunity to reminisce AND learn about all the new programs and goals the organization is… Read more »

A Trip to the Fire Station!

The Shandon Members started off the month of March with a visit to their local fire station! The Shandon Fire Station is just a couple of blocks away from the Shandon Club so the Members enjoyed their walk there. They were given a tour of the station, the firefighter’s home, the firetruck, were given a… Read more »

NYOl Takes Off at the Creston Club

Our members, 9 years and older, are participating in the National Youth Outcome Initiative (NYOI) survey for the first time. To get our members excited about the survey we surprised them with goodie bags. Once all our members complete the survey we will be celebrating with an ice cream party.

Shandon Members Enjoy Triple Play!

Our members who attend our current sessions have been very satisfied and seem to enjoy their time while participating. In our most recent sessions, the members had a lot of fun joining in activities like creating their own colors with paint, ran around while playing chickens and the wolf, and also red light, green light…. Read more »