YOUTH EDUCATION

The BGC’s Youth Development Center aims to increase opportunities for children and teens in education, employment, health care, and social development.

The BGC has a distinguished track record of youth development programming. Through its youth initiatives, the BGC has created and administers after-school programs that help 125 students annually recover lost credits, receive online tutoring and prepare for paid internships that, in turn, may lead to permanent jobs. Our youth programs echo the agenda laid out by President Obama in the New York Times: “We’ve got to focus not just on increasing graduation rates, but we’ve also got to make what’s learned…more robust and more effective.”

Community LEARNS is a partnership of the BGC, Neighborhood Learning Alliance, the Mt. Ararat Community Activity Center, One Vision One Life and the Eastside Neighborhood Employment Center, providing “academics-first” after-school and summer educational, recreational, support, and employment services to students from University Prep at Pittsburgh Milliones 6-12.

The 21st Century Program provides year-round after-school programs and day camps for Fort Pitt School students (K-5). The goal is to move students from sub-par to proficient academic performance, and to have structured recreation activities.