Wellness Center

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. 

Our mission is to service youth who face countless barriers to getting much-required social wellbeing and behavioral health including social, emotional, behavioral, transportation, and monetary challenges. Being a vital aid to club members of special education and implementing IEPs is also a priority of Wellness. Furthermore, collaboration with our workforce, recreation, and college readiness department prepares youth mentally and physically for a successful journey in the work field and college. Bringing behavioral and wellness solidly into the Clubs, where we can utilize demonstrated counteraction and wellness intervention and prevention, will assist a huge number of youths who it will be most beneficial to.

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. Upon enrolling in any club program (Recreation, Workforce, College Readiness), weekly participation in the Wellness Center is a mandatory requirement

Who Are We?

Director of Behavioral Health Services – who specializes in Applied Behavior Analysis, assessments, and writing success plans for intervention/prevention. One full-time, on-site case manager- who has shown and proven great rapport with youth and effectively making observations and implementing success plans, and one part time/on call case manager- a life coach with years of knowledge and experience to give our youth.

What We Do?

BGCAC’s Wellness Center will offer Behavioral Health Services Monday through Friday during programming hours to our teens. Behavioral Health Services will provide opportunities for teens to engage in educational wellness groups, case management, individual and/or group counseling, goal setting, linkages to additional services and resources, and teen training series including trauma informed and Teen Mental Health First Aid.

Connect with Our Team

Director of Behavioral Health Services

Latoya Mcglone, MS

Behavioral Health Case Manager

Erika Cors, BS

Wellness Center Contact

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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)

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