Union League Boys & Girls Clubs

🤝The Boys & Girls Clubs of America exist to prove EVERY KID HAS WHAT IT TAKES.
📚Our afterschool program enables kids to find their true potential. A key component of our program is Power Hour, which provides daily tutoring and homework assistance to all members. Power Hour has a proven track record of measurable performance results.
💙THANK YOU, , for your generous support of Power Hour for over 60,000 members in 22 clubs throughout Illinois.
Together, we are building Great Futures!

✨✌️ Feel Good Friday ✌️✨

🌈☮️ Union League Boys & Girls Club Members Take Over the Streets to Bring Peace and Keep Their Communities Safe: All our Club members left their Club sites across the South & West Sides of Chicago today, to create peace in the streets and inspire their communities to be safe places. 🎊☮️

🤝Our Club members serve as a powerful example of how our youth can lead positive change and foster safer environments for everyone! 💙
📷 Barreto Club members marching around Humboldt Park

❤️ The Heart of it All ❤️

Together we are changing lives and opening the door to Infinite Possibilities for all our youth!

🌟 Youth Mental Health Matters! 🌟

Join us during National Boys & Girls Club Week as we elevate awareness, foster support, and promote self-care for mental well-being.
Many of our programs are rooted in Trauma-Informed Care, ensuring a safe and nurturing environment for all.

Safe Inclusive Spaces ✨ Caring Adult Mentors ✨ Skill-Building Programs

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While we are spotlighting BGC and the organization's ability to "Level Up"

🎉 Congratulations to Amirali Jivani (AJ) on his promotion to
Vice President of Science & Technology at Union League Boys & Girls Clubs! 🥳

AJ is truly leveling up, bringing his passion for STEM to new heights, and empowering our youth to Level Up.
Here's to many more achievements and innovations under your leadership! 🚀🔬

🚀 Level Up for the Future with Union League Boys & Girls Clubs! 🌟

Join us as we open the door to Infinite Possibilities in STEM! 🧬🔧🎨🔢

✨STEM enables our Club members to discover exciting career paths in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.

Let’s empower our Club members with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed! 💪

📸 pictured above are our Barreto Club members working on Lego Robotics, Programming, and Flying Drones!

🥳 Meet some of our Legends of ULBGC! 💙

🔑Our organization wouldn't be where it is today without the incredible achievements of our alumni! 🎉 During National ULBGC Week, we're celebrating their success stories and their significant impact on their communities.
Let's honor their journeys and recognize how they’ve helped shape our organization.🕹

Happy National

🌟 Join us in celebrating the amazing achievements of our alumni from
Union League Boys & Girls Clubs of America!

🎉 During National ULBGC Week, today we highlight their inspiring success stories and incredible impact on their communities.

💙Are you a BGCA or ULBGC Alumni?
Share your story in the comments! 🌟

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🌟 As we celebrate this year’s theme “Level up with ULBGC,” all week long, we want you to be a part of it!

⁉️There are many ways that you can get involved and show your support.
You can start by sharing our social media posts and using the hashtag .
🤩You can also make a donation to help support our programs and services.
Your support is crucial in helping us continue to provide a safe and positive environment for young people to learn, grow, and thrive.
🤝Together, we can make a difference in our community's young people's lives.
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So, what are you waiting for? Join us in celebrating National Boys & Girls Club Week and Level Up with ULBGC!

🎮 It's National Boys & Girls Club Week!
⁉️ Did you know that Union League Boys & Girls Clubs is apart of the National Boys & Girls Clubs? 💙
🕹This year we're celebrating how young people Level Up with ULBGC!
Boys & Girls Clubs of America branded a retro video game theme, highlighting our activities, programs, and dedicated staff that help youth grow and succeed every day.
Join us in showcasing 160+ years (105 for ULBGC) of empowering young people to reach their full potential! 🌟

Union League Boys & Girls Clubs
🏕️ Happy - Feel Good Friday - from our First Session Ulbgc Camp!!🪵
🏹 Archery
🎨 Arts & Crafts
🏓 Games
😍 Friends & Fun
🎯 It’s not to Late to Register !!

Camp - Union League Boys & Girls Clubs Over the past 90 years, more than 50,000 young people experienced the pastoral freedom of the 247 acres of rolling hills and woodlands that surround beautiful Lake Francis in Salem, Wisconsin, site of Union League Boys & Girls Club Camp.

🤩Happy - Feel Good Friday - from all of our Scholarship Recipients!🤩

🎓💙This year, Union League Boys & Girls Clubs was enabled, through our generous donors, to award 53 Club members with College Scholarships totaling $225,000.
The scholarships were awarded to high school graduates and currently enrolled college students.💙🎓

Onward & Upward!

💙🤩 Feel Good Friday 🤩💙

For this Feel Good Friday, we are spotlighting the fantastic staff of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC). ❤️‍🩹

Union League Boys & Girls Clubs has partnered with the JTDC since 2014. They see, on average, 200 youth a day. Our Club at the JTDC is not only fully equipped with mentoring, caring, and knowledgable staff, but they also provide 68 programs to the youth, including a highly engaging drone program that takes place outdoors, and Street SMARTs, a program led by Edwin C., who just celebrated 30 years with ULBGC, that has been proven to enhance the youth's street smarts and life skills.

💙Ms. Brown, Ms. Ramos, Edwin, and the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center staff provide the youth with a SAFE, SECURE, and CARING environment with programs and structures that enhance personal development and improve opportunities for success upon return to the community.💙

Guess What!?! Camp’s First Session starts in 12 Days!!!
🏃‍♂️ Run to Register - You don’t want to miss out on Camp’s 100th Year.

🌳 Wilderness Wednesdays: Where Nature Nurtures 🎯





ULBGC.org/CAMP 🏕️ 🤩 🎊

➡️Did you know Caymus Vineyards is celebrating its Fiftieth Anniversary?

➡️Did you know Caymus Vineyards is hosting our Twenty Seventh Annual Wine Dinner?

🍷A limited number of tickets are still available!
https://2024winedinner.cbo.io

Unable to attend? Donate a bottle of Wine valued at $40 or more to our Wine Pull. https://forms.gle/DSbRYJSF58bknJFX8

Thank you, Ladies! 💙

Pilsen group encourages positive self-talk, coping skills in young girls: 'It's OK to say you have problems' Any frustration is welcome after school at GLOW: Trauma-Informed Mentoring for Girls. "This club is the only one we can express ourselves in," one youth said while the girls create a "zen garden."

🤔‼️ Did you know the first Camp Session starts in 26 days⁉️🥳
👀Are you registered yet⁉️
🌤️Thank you to all our Volunteers who attended Camp Clean-Up on Saturday to get everything ready for our Campers 💪💙
📸 Pictures above Associate Board Members and our Camp Counsler Frank 🙌 🌤️

🎉We have much to 'Feel Good' about this Friday!🎊

💙 🥳Congratulations to our New Board President - Mr. Timothy Cunningham. Mr. Thomas Payne passed the gavel at our Annual Meeting! We also welcomed our new Executive Committee and Trustees!

♾️🏀The Boys & Girls Clubs National Conference was held in Atlanta, and our President and CEO met Coach Dawn Staley of the South Carolina Gamecocks!

🧀🥰Our clubs received oversized pallets of Mac N Cheese for all our Club members, their families, and their communities! Mac N Cheese for everyone! Thank you, Kraft.

ULBGC Club Hammond Awards Night!

🙌 Feel Good Friday! Congratulations to all the Illinois Boys & Girls Clubs Youth of the Year Candidates who spent Tuesday at the Illinois State Capital!
💙 Union League Boys & Girls Clubs, Youth of the Year, Ta’Aliyah, was one of the finalists and the winner is from BGCA Elign!

We are so proud of everyone’s hardworking and yes the selfie of Ta’Aliyah and Governor Pritzker is our favorite too!

Happy Feel Good Friday

We are already counting down the days to Union League Boys & Girls Clubs 2024 Youth of the Year Celebration 🌟 to be exact 🙂