The Teen Program is offered 6pm to 9pm each weekday for youth ages 13 and above.  This program includes the following educational, vocational and recreational opportunities:

Youth of the Year: Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s premier youth recognition program promotes and celebrates Club members’ service to Club, community and family; academic performance; moral character; life goals and poise and public speaking ability.  Local Clubs recognize youths of the month, select youth of the year, who then participates in state competition.

Albany Teen Programs

TEENSupreme Keystone Clubs: Keystone Clubs are chartered small-group leadership and service clubs for boys and girls ages 14-18. Keystoners elect officers and plan and implement their own activities in six areas: service to Club and community, leadership development, education and career exploration, unity, free enterprise and social recreation.

GANG PREVENTION PROGRAM: This community-based program provides training, materials and technical assistance to Clubs and their community partners to keep young people ages 6-18 from becoming involved in gangs. The program’s intervention component helps youth who are already involved with gangs to leave that lifestyle. The program uses community mobilization, recruitment strategies, effective programming and case management tools to direct young people to positive alternatives.

CLUB Service: This program, the result of a partnership between Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps), provides education awards to Club members ages 17 and 18 and Club alumni ages 19-24 who serve their Clubs and communities.