Who We Are

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Kennebec Valley provides a safe place for over 1,500 children where they can confidently build great futures. Our dedicated staff works to provide opportunity and skills that will improve all aspects of the lives of the young people in our care. Our goal is to inspire our youth by being the place that they belong and where they can reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

We do this by providing safe spaces filled with opportunity, enriching programs, and caring adults who actively cultivate relationships to ensure that our youth feel connected, supported, and valued. Our programs focus on academics, recreation, art, music, health and wellness, and character deveopment for youth ages 6 weeks to 18 years.


The Boys & Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley (BGCKV) has 3 locations: 
Sandra M. Prescott Clubhouse
14 Pray Street
Gardiner, ME  04345

Chelsea Clubhouse
Chelsea Elementary School
Chelsea, ME  04330

Palermo Clubhouse
Palermo Elementary School
Palermo, ME 04354

BGCKV also has 21st Century Community Learning Centers in 3 locations:
Sandra M. Prescott Clubhouse
Whitefield Elementary School
Chelsea Elementary School


Our Mission


To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Great Futures


It's about caring professionals teaching life lessons, a fun and safe place where kids and teens can imagine and realize their potential, and about moments that matter. It's about a place to become.

Our Impact


Strategies and practices that the BGCKV and all Clubs use to promote the positive, healthy development of youth.

Youth Programs


Our goal is to inspire our youth by being the place that they belong and where they can reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Our programs meet our kids where they are in learning, life, sports, and volunteering.


We offer the following programs:


Childcare

Early Childhood Education (infant through pre-school)

School-Age Program (K through 5th grade)

Teen Center (6th grade through 12th grade)


Summer Camps

School-Age

Teens



Keystone Club

CLC Program

Youth of the Year

Youth Sports



CLUB PROGRAMS

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR PAST YOUTHS OF THE YEAR

2023 and 2023 Maine State Youth of the Year Dillon Elliott

2021 & 2022 and 2022 Maine State Youth of the Year Juliana Montell

2020 Caleb Hudson

2019 and 2019 Maine State Youth of the Year Renee Rossi

2018 and 2018 Maine State Youth of the Year Timmy Doyle

2016 & 2017 and 2017 Maine State Youth of the Year Jada Lin

2014 & 2015 and 2015 Maine State Youth of the Year Kelsey Barrett

2013 Katie "Gallup" Bischof

2012 and 2012 Maine State Youth of the Year Logan Hallett 

2011 Amy "Princiotta" Poole

2010 and 2010 Maine State Youth of the Year Julie "Gallup" Drost

2009 Nate Mitchell

2008 Katie Collins

2007 Tookie "Amosun" Gregoire

2006 Manny Mercado

2005 and 2005 Maine State Youth of the Year Mae "Burke" Slevinsky

2004 Kaylee Antognoni


 2024 Youth of the Year


Why the Boys & Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley are so important to Yana Montell:


“After seven years as a Club kid, I still look forward to attending my Boys & Girls Club every single day.   It’s where I can be myself and be celebrated for it, where I developed leadership when I once accepted just being a spectator, and where I was able to create a clear vision of what a consistent, caring adult actually looks like.   Today, I no longer see the Club as a mere after-school refuge; I see it as a platform where I, as a role model, aim to lead the younger generation down the same path of love and acceptance that the Club illuminated for me.”


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