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Developing a Community
Grounds are cleared for the new Community Center in El Triangulo de la Solidaridad Precario, Costa Rica
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Forming Leaders
Boy With A Ball hosts the AASCA Leadership Conference of 2009
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Educating Youth
Reaching youth by extending a hand through education
What's Happening
7th Annual Bob Johnson Charity Golf Classic 09/24/11
An exciting event helping to develop youth around the globe.
Summer Literacy Program Begins 05/24/11
Looking for a place to make a difference? Have some time and energy to give? Check out Read, Write to Lead!
Enabling Students to Achieve Their Dreams 05/24/11
A university scholarship program develops in El Triángulo de la Solidaridad.
Developing Community in San Antonio 04/23/11
BWAB SA has worked to establish several areas of community development within the San Antonio area over the last year...
Mentoring in Southside San Antonio
It's not easy being a young person on the Southside of San Antonio. It is dramatically more difficult to grow up when your father or mother is in prison.
Boy With a Ball is excited to have a new opportunity to participate in a program that will allow us to help these young people emerge out of a high-risk situation and to grow into leaders capable of reaching their dreams.
In July of this year, Boy With a Ball's Southside San Antonio team was selected as a participant in Mentor's Caregiver's Choice, a national program funded by the U.S. Government's Department of Health and Human Services. Caregiver's Choice is a three year program which provides funding for qualified local organizations like Boy With a Ball to provide formal mentoring relationships for children from age 4 up to age 18 with incarcerated parent(s) in state or federal facilities. (Read more here: http://www.mentoring.org/find_resources/caregiverschoice/)
Mentoring is a central component to Boy With a Ball's focus in working to reach and equip young people. Boy With a Ball teams work to reach young people and draw them into mentoring relationships and small groups from which they can be equipped to not only survive adolescence but to emerge as healthy, thriving adults. This program allows our team an open door into helping a group of young people that are even in greater need of the support, advice, friendship, reinforcement and constructive examples that mentoring can provide due to the absence of one of their parents.
If you are interested in enrolling a child in this program, please click on the following link: Enroll Your Child Today in Mentoring Children of Prisoner's Caregiver's Choice Program or call our Boy With a Ball Southside office at 210-412-1787.
