Wellness
Center
Healthy Lives, Resilient Futures
Our Approach
The Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City Teen Center is a well-known safe haven where teens receive supportive services that include educational, recreational, and motivational opportunities to develop into leaders within the community.
Currently the Teen Center provides: mentoring, academic enrichment, leadership development, financial literacy education, sports & recreation as well as healthy snacks and meals Monday through Friday
MENTORING
ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
FINANCIAL LITERACY
SPORTS & REC
Through the CHEC initiative Behavioral Health Services will be offered beginning in January 2022. BGCAC is utilizing a multidisciplinary approach to address the challenges faced by our teens and families.
The Wellness Center
The Boys & Girls of Atlantic City Wellness Center provides a strength based, trauma informed approach providing case management that will support teens emotional and behavioral wellbeing. This will entail counseling opportunities to teens individual and as a group, linkages to additional services and resources when necessary.
Who Are We?
Director of Behavioral Health Services – Licensed Social Worker, One case manager, and Stockton University Social Work Interns
What We Do?
Offer Behavioral Health Services/ Trauma Informed Case Management: Assisting teens in reaching self-sufficiency by addressing their emotional/behavioral health needs and providing them with strategies and tools to support their success.
Connect with Our Team
Director of Behavioral Health Services
David Pringle
Behavioral Health Case Manager
Erika Cors, BS
What is
TRAUMA?
Trauma is a person’s emotional response to a distressing event. These events are often sudden, unpredictable, involve a serious threat to life and feel beyond a person’s control (apa.org).
Traumatic experiences can ignite strong emotional and physical reactions that can last well after the triggering event has ended (nctsn.org)