• Clubs kept a majority of youth engaged for 12 months, with 72% of prevention youth and 68% of intervention youth still attending Club/projects one year after being recruited. Attendance rates were high, with 52% of prevention youth and 24% of intervention youth attendance at Club/projects several times a week.
• A majority of youth (64 percent of prevention youth and 56 percent of intervention youth) agreed or strongly agreed that they felt a sense of belonging to the Club, and 59 percent of prevention youth and 35 percent of intervention youth reported that Club activities were interesting and challenging. Most remarkably, a large majority of participating youth reported feeling safe at the Club. On a scale of one to 10, with 10 being safest, 86 percent of prevention youth and 70 percent of intervention youth rated the Club at eight or higher.

• Career Prep was designed to provide comprehensive career preparation services to youth ages 13-18, emphasizing job preparedness, placement and follow-up for 16 - 18 year olds
• The Career Prep program placed 1,433 youth in jobs,
  averaging 36 placements per Club.

The Educational Enhancement Program, since renamed Project Learn, is a comprehensive program strategy that strives to provide youth with opportunities to bolster their school learning through their activities in the Club and at home. Project Learn features five important components:

• Homework help and tutoring
  
• High-yield learning activities
  
• Parent involvement
  
• Collaboration with schools
  
• Incentive

• Overall grade point average by 11 percent
  
• Mathematics grade point average by 13 percent
  
• History grade point average by 13 percent
  
• Science grade point average by 10 percent
  
• Spelling grade point average by 22 percent
  
• Reading grade point average by 5 percent

• 15 percent higher overall grade point average
  
• 16 percent higher grade point average in mathematics
  
• 20 percent higher grade point average in history
  
• 14 percent higher grade point average in science
  
• 20 percent higher grade point average in spelling
  
• 9 percent higher grade point average in reading

Additionally, Project Learn participants decreased the number of days they were absent by 66 percent. Compared to non-Club youth, Project Learn youth missed 87 percent fewer days from school.

• For adults and youth alike, Boys & Girls Clubs appear to be associated with an overall reduction in alcohol and other drug use, drug trafficking and other drug-related criminal activity.
• Public housing sites with Boys & Girls Clubs, when compared to public housing sites without Boys & Girls Clubs, experienced 13 percent fewer juvenile crimes, 22 percent less drug activity and 25 percent less crack presence.