Health & Life Skills

SMART Moves (Skills Mastery and Resistance Training) is a nationally acclaimed comprehensive prevention program that helps young people resist alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, as well as premature sexual activity. The program’s components are SMART Kids for ages 6 – 9; Start SMART for ages 10 – 12; Stay SMART for ages 13 – 15; SMART Parents; SMART Leaders, a peer leader/booster program for older teens; and F.A.N. Club (Family Advocacy Network).

SMART Girls is a small group health, fitness, prevention/education and self-esteem enhancement program designed to meet the developmental needs of girls ages 8 – 12 and 13 – 17. Through dynamic sessions, highly participatory activities, field trips and mentoring opportunities with adult women, Club girls explore their own and societal attitudes and values as they build skills for eating right, staying physically fit, good health care and developing positive relationships with peers and adults.

Passport to Manhood promotes and teaches responsibility in Club boys ages 11 – 14. Passport to Manhood consists of 14 sessions, each of which concentrates on a specific aspect of manhood through highly interactive activities. Each Club participant receives his own "passport" to underscore the notion that he is on a personal journey of maturation and growth.

UPS Road Code^SM Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, accounting for more than one in three teenage deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The UPS Foundation has partnered with Boys & Girls Clubs of America on a national program to teach safe driving techniques to teens – UPS Road Code^SM. This program is based in large part on the same safety training used with UPS’s own drivers. Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas is proud to have been selected to receive a grant this year to implement UPS Road Code^SM, bringing this critical life-saving initiative to more than 250 teenagers at our Clubs.