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Nashua | The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Nashua
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From participant to Director, Janail Archer tells us about The Boys and Girls Club.
From participant to Director, Janail Archer tells us about The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Nashua, and all the lives it has touched, for the better.
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Our Hometown
Nashua | The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Nashua
Clip | 4m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
From participant to Director, Janail Archer tells us about The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Nashua, and all the lives it has touched, for the better.
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I love the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Nashua.
When I was younger, I was signed up by my mom for all of my siblings.
She needed a safe place, affordable place for my siblings and I to go during the summer when we were off from school and at the time of membership for the Boys and Girls Club was $15 for the year.
So it was something that she could afford.
And the minute I stepped in the club, I absolutely loved it.
I loved having things to do.
I loved being in the art room.
And as the years progressed, I found that I joined more and more programs where I was able to learn how to advocate for myself, express myself.
The Boys and Girls Club helps me to understand my past as an adoptee and find a new sense of pride for where I had come from.
I did public speaking programs with the Boys and Girls Club leaderships with the Boys and Girls Club.
The first time I ever flew on a plane was because of the Boys and Girls Club.
I was a part of the Keystone program.
It's a leadership and community service program where we traveled to different conferences across the country to meet other boys and girls Clubs for our leadership conferences.
I had one of my first jobs at the Boys and Girls Club as a locker room attendant, and from there I kind of worked my way up from locker room attendant to dance instructor to camp counselor, camp director.
And then whenever I would come home from college, the Boys and Girls Club, but always provide me a job.
Once I graduated from college, I was hired by the Boys and Girls Club to be a Clubhouse.
Individual Services Director.
So basically I was like a principal, a guidance counselor and a case manager wrapped in one.
And I was able to, in a in a positive manner, teach all club members that crossed my path about accountability, taking ownership for actions, being supported by caring adults.
I also focused a lot on family service work and connecting our club members to members in the community and resources in the community.
And now I'm Director of Operations for the Boys and Girls Club, so I'm just so excited.
I have probably spent over 25 years connected with the Boys and Girls Club.
My daughter goes to the Boys and Girls Club now, so it's just been it's had an amazing impact on my life.
The mission of the Boys and Girls Club is to enable all young people, especially those who need us the most, to reach their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens and in doing so, we focus a lot on any area that a child might need support, or they might have an ability to grow and become more.
Whether it's art related, healthy lifestyle or athletic related character and leadership citizenship.
Just making sure that we are helping to raise the children in Nashua.
So the as long as I've been in the city of Nashua, the Boys and Girls.
Club has been and will forever be an important part of the city.
So our Boys and Girls Club, we serve hundreds of children a day.
If you connect with someone in Nashua, someone along the way has had some kind of involvement with the Boys and Girls Club.
Over the years.
We've served thousands and thousands of club members and we look to expand on that with our connections with different community partners through the national school district, through other youth serving community organizations to just partner and address the needs of the entire Greater Nashua community.
Expanding past Nashua, but serving local towns and cities as well.
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