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pregnancy, child abuse and neglect, juvenile crime, school failure, and other negative consequences for children. The Virginia Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs serves children between the ages of 6-18 with programming across three program areas including academic success, workforce development, and healthy lifestyles. All eligible clubs in the Commonwealth participate, and programming is provided to children statewide. Clubs offer services for academic success, workforce development, and healthy lifestyles.
Total Youth Served Academic Success: Power Hour: 14,834 Project Learn: 9,501
Workforce Development: Power Hour: 14,834 Junior Staff: 384 Career Launch: 875 Money Matters: 633 Community Service: 3,563
Healthy Lifestyles: SMART Moves: 4,581 SMART Girls: 1,569 P2M: 1,412 Family Engagement: 7,001 Triple Play: 18,184
As a result of participation in Academic Success, Workforce Development, and Healthy Lifestyles programming, participants met the following performance measures: • 96% of youth are on grade level for their age and will experience on-time grade progression • 93% of youth expect to graduate on time • 95% of youth refrain from illicit use of prescription pain medicine • 91% of youth abstain from alcohol use • 97% of youth abstain from cigarette use
Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) In FY23, the General Assembly appropriated $4,000,000 to the Virginia Contraceptive Access Initiative (CAI), previously called the LARC pilot.