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- Torch Club: Youth ages 11-13 elect their own officers, plan their own activities and conduct their own fundraising.   - Junior Staff: Youth ages 10-18 learn valuable job skills while helping with club duties which include answering the phones and checking out equipment.   - Keystone Club: Members in 9th-12th grades learn skills and values to be used as they continue to mature. Activity planning, fundraising and community involvement are stressed in bi-monthly meetings. Fundraising efforts enable members to attend the National Boys and Girls Club Keystone Conference.

Offers programs that develop leadership and citizenship skills.  Also offers Torch Clubs, which are chartered small-group leadership and service clubs for boys and girls ages 11-13.   Torch Club members elect officers and work together to plan and implement activities in four areas: service to Club and community, education, health and fitness, and social recreation.   Torch Club awards are presented annually to Torch Clubs with outstanding programs and activities in all four areas.  Also offers Keystone Club for members in grades 9-12.   Teaches skills and values to be used as they continue to mature.  Activity planning, fundraising and community involvement are stressed in bi-monthly meetings.

Provides a safe space for teens after school to explore service opportunities, connections to supportive and trustworthy adult mentors, and exposure to post-secondary education and employment opportunities.

Offers citizenship and leadership programs.   - Torch Club is for grades five through eight. Members elect their own officers and plan their own activities and fundraisers.   - Keystone Club is for grades nine through 12. Members learn skills and values used as they continue to mature. Activity planning, fundraising, and community involvement are stressed in bi-monthly meetings.   - Junior Staff, for grades five through 12, offers members the opportunity to learn job and living skills by assisting with chores around the club.

Offers programs including cooking, robotics, SMART Girls, Dude Time, Magic Club, Film/Book Club and tutoring.  Teens awards may be offered to teen Club members who have exhibited outstanding leadership and citizenship skills in school and at the club.

Provides a teen judge and jury for youth who have been charged with a traffic infraction.  The sentence may include community service, writing a letter of apology or an essay, going on a police ride-along, participating in Street Law curriculum, or serving on a Youth Court panel.   There is a 6-month deferral period for each case, after which, if all conditions have been completed successfully, the charge will be dismissed.

Provides citizenship and leadership programs.  The Lipton Award is given to young adults who demonstrate courage, perseverance, challenge, fraternity and integrity through their participation in athletics and in daily life. Youth of the Quarter honors a club member who has demonstrated leadership qualities, club involvement and community service. Health Adventure program for youth in eighth grade allows participants the opportunity to experience jobs in the healthcare field and work closely with an adult role model.

Offers programs that help youth understand what it means to be a good citizen and develop leadership skills.  Includes a junior staff program during the school year and a counselor-in-training program for the summer, which helps youth acquire job experience and references for future jobs. Additionally includes Youth of the Quarter and Youth of the Year awards for teen club members who have exhibited outstanding leadership and citizenship skills in school and at the club.