The Boys & Girls Club of Dumplin Valley, White Pine Branch is switching the Lights on with their latest event focused on afterschool programming!
Children, parents, business and community leaders will be coming together on October 22, 5:30-7pm at the Boys & Girls Club of Dumplin Valley, White Pine branch to celebrate the achievements of afterschool students and draw attention to the need for more afterschool programs to serve the millions of children nationwide who are unsupervised and at risk each weekday afternoon. This gathering will be one of more than 8,000 such events across the nation emphasizing the importance of keeping the lights on and the doors open after school. Speakers at the rally celebrated the many benefits of afterschool programs, and encouraged lawmakers, businesses and other to support afterschool funding.
White Pine Lights On Afterschool participants will see what their children have been working on, while discussing the importance of afterschool programs. Organized by the Afterschool Alliance, Lights On Afterschool has been celebrated annually since 2000. This year, more than one million Americans will take part in the only nationwide rally for afterschool programs.
This September, the Afterschool Alliance released a new report on parents’ views on afterschool and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programming. Drawing on data from America After 3PM, it found widespread support for STEM education in afterschool, with 70 percent of parents saying they believed afterschool programs should provide STEM learning, and 80 percent of parents with children in afterschool saying they are satisfied with their child’s program’s STEM offerings.
Lights On Afterschool is organized by the Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit public awareness and advocacy organization working to ensure that all children have access to quality afterschool programs. More information on the Afterschool Alliance, Lights On Afterschool and America After 3PM is available at www.afterschoolalliance.org.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Dumplin Valley is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization serving the youth of Jefferson County in two locations: Jefferson City and White Pine. The club provides a safe place for youth to go after school. Where they can have fun and participate in a variety of programs designed to help them reach their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.
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If you would like more information about this event, please contact Rachel Hicks, Director of Resource Development at 865-761-0143 or email at rhicks@bgcdumplinvalley.org.
3107 Circle Drive
White Pine, TN 37890
Phone: 865-761-0143