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March is Social Worker Month! To celebrate, we’re recognizing one of the earliest gifts made to our award-winning Behavioral Health Team, and the transformational impact it had on our Club members. In 2019, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County Behavioral Health Team was just an idea—a vision for providing members with the resources…

We’re excited to celebrate two outstanding Larimer County youth who recently received prestigious Youth of the Year recognition. The winning Senior Youth of the Year is Genesis, an 8th-grade student who attends Sage Homes Wellington Club. The winning Junior Youth of the Year is Camden, a 4th grader attending Edmondson Elementary Club.  Winners were selected…

Monthly Newsletter CEO Letter Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County’s Youth of the Year program is my favorite way to reconnect with our mission and it couldn’t have come at a better time as I was needing a little pick me up this month! I get the opportunity to see this leadership development competition at both…

Boys and Girls Clubs of Larimer County (BGCLC) has been selected as a Trauma-Informed Intensive Resource Training Hub. This prestigious recognition was awarded by Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) through a highly competitive application process. As part of this recognition, BGCLC hosted a TI Intensive Training for staff from Clubs across the region…

CEO Letter Happy New Year! Happy New Year? I was really looking forward to a fresh start in 2025, but I’ve struggled writing this letter in the typical upbeat fashion given the many challenges that January presented us as an organization and as a community. Is anyone else’s head spinning? As I try to find my bearings…

October Newsletter CEO Letter “The miracle is this: The more we share the more we have.” — Leonard Nimoy It’s a beautiful time of year to be in Colorado, and I have had the opportunity to soak up the fall season in Estes Park twice over the last 30 days. Once for much-needed time in RMNP.…

September Newsletter CEO Letter Happy Fall, y’all! This is the most beautiful time of year in Colorado, and I hope you are all out enjoying the incredible weather and gorgeous colors! This week we decided to take advantage of my son’s school-out day and head up to Rocky Mountain National Park for some leaf peeping. We didn’t get the…

August Newsletter CEO Letter School is officially back in full swing and my head is still spinning at how quickly the summer blew by and that we’re already getting ready for football season, cooler temperatures, and earlier sunsets. BGCLC completed our largest summer program in history, which included Summer of Discovery at all three of our…

  CEO Letter It’s hard to believe this week marks the end of summer at BGCLC and our largest program in history! Where did the time go?!? It has been an incredibly busy one with more field trips than ever before and the continued expansion of Summer of Discovery. We’ll be celebrating with youth graduation at our Fort…

CEO Letter Summer is my absolute favorite season of the year. Flip flops, outdoor concerts, mountain hikes, farmers markets, cooling off at the pool, and everything else that comes with sunny days and warm weather.  This will be our largest summer program on record, with over 1,300 youth enrolled, all of them excited to make new friends and…

CEO Letter Spring has officially sprung! I love my morning walks this time of year where the flowers are blooming, the birds are happily singing, and the air is starting to warm.  One definition of spring is a season of growth and development, which is synonymous with what we do here at BGCLC! Since early 2020, we have exponentially grown…