Our Mission

The primary mission of The Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield is to enhance the quality of life for youth as participating members of a richly diverse society. With special concern for the disadvantaged, the Boys & Girls Club helps youth to help themselves realize their potential for growth and development. Basing its program on member and community involvement and a recognized role as spokesman for youth, the Boys & Girls Club is aware of the influences of the total environment and so provides youth with relevant, everyday various and diversified individual and group services. These demonstrate that adults care for youth and truly desire to help them grow into contributing human beings with the necessary skills for living. Therefore, to accomplish its mission it must provide programs based an principles of behavioral guidance which will achieve the health, social, educational, vocational, character and leadership development of our membership.