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
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.”