Juvenile crime is a serious problem throughout the state of Texas. There is a delinquent conduct referral to a juvenile probation department every seven minutes. There is a violent crime referral every hour and a half, a property crime referral every twenty-three minutes, and other delinquent referrals every eleven and a half minutes. The violent crimes reported are homicide, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assaulted, and attempted homicide. The property crimes include burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft. The other delinquent referrals include drug offenses, other felonies and other non-felony offenses. The graphs below

The Boys and Girls Club reaches out to families with young children who may not be able to afford after school care for their children. The Club serves children from ages six to eighteen. The Boys and Girls Club of America serves about 3.5 million kids. There is about 3,100 clubs located in all 50 states and in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands plus domestic and international military bases. A one-year membership to the Club in Bryan is only $8 for the entire year (expires August 16 each year). If a child needs a ride to the Club from school, a monthly fee of $5 is charged. It is hard to give the exact proportions of the socio-demographic characteristics of the children at the Boys and Girls Club of the Brazos Valley. If I were to give an approximate I would say that it is about 80% African-American, 15% are Mexican-American and about 5% are Anglo-American. Although these proportions are not consistent with the Boys and Girls Club of America national proportions, I believe them to be accurate and consistent with the surrounding population and economic characteristics. The Boys and Girls Club of America reports that 63% of the clients are from minority families. The age proportions from the national organization seem to be about the same as the Club of Brazos Valley. Seventeen percent of the children are under the age of seven, twenty-nine percent are from eight to ten years old, twenty-nine percent are from eleven to thirteen, and twenty-five percent are ages fourteen to eighteen. The club is about 50% boys and 50% girls. My experience at the Club was different from anything I had experienced before.

I remember my first day walking into the Club and seeing all the children. I thought that this was going to be like a daycare job that I had when I was a freshman in college; I was wrong. The Club is like a daycare only in the aspect of having all the children. It is unlike a daycare because they do not have the age divisions, structure and are not subject to daycare laws. The children who are not picked up by the time the Club closes can be left outside to wait, which Marcy told me they do not do. Each day at three o’clock the children start to show up from school. At this time they can either play in the game room or do homework. Most of the kids play in the game room but a lot of them do go to the library to do their homework. I remember one specific occasion when Stacia, a ten-year-old girl, came in to the library and started her homework. She then got frustrated and said she had finished and went to play pool in the game room. A few minutes later I went to get her to ask her to see her homework. She was not happy about this. She pulled it out of her binder and showed it to me, unfinished. I made Stacia sit there and do her homework; she refused to let me help her with the problems she was having trouble on. She ended up finishing her homework with the help of some classmates. Stacia was not happy with me, and every time I saw her that week she avoided me and would not talk to me. After that week Stacia was fine and we were friends again. The first day that I was there to do my volunteer work was a Friday and on that day we did arts and crafts. We made butterflies and caterpillars. The children were not allowed to handle the glitter themselves. They had to have an adult put the glitter on for them after they put the glue were they wanted it. This did not matter very much to some of the children. They wanted to do the glitter themselves. Some of them would grab the glitter and start to pour and try to do it before an adult saw them, but most of them were unsuccessful in their attempts. Some of them did not like their caterpillars and butterflies very much and they got very upset and were afraid that the other children were going to make fun of their artwork. T

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