Teen West Street Programs
The Mattioli Family Teen Center was designed specifically for members age 13-18 to provide an important gathering place for future generations of productive young adults. We welcome youth living in and around Bristol to come hang with us, participate in national Boys & Girls Club programs and volunteer within the Club!
Teen Membership Cost
$50.00/year
School Year Hours
Teen Center 2-6pm
Contact Gianna Dangelo at
860-583-4734 or
teencenter@bbgc.org for more information, or stop by the Club to see our programs in action!
Programs Below are FREE with Membership!
Keystone Club
This is a year-round program that provides teen club members with valuable leadership and service experiences. Each club member will conduct activities in three areas: academic success, career exploration, and community service. Club members elect officers and engage in a broad spectrum of activities. The Boys & Girls Clubs of America hosts an annual National Keystone Conference for the Boys & Girls Club teens that brings together members from all across the globe. Throughout the conference, Keystone members engage and socialize with peers, explore relevant issues, and develop skills to support and enhance the efforts of the Boys & Girls Clubs and our community.
Torch Club
Torch Clubs is a small-group leadership and service program for select
Middle School members. Torch Club is a powerful vehicle through which Club staff canhelp meet the special character development needs of younger adolescents at a critical stage in their development. Torch Club members learn to elect officers and work together to implement activities in four areas: service to our Club and community, education, health and fitness and social recreation. Each year, Torch Club members from Boys & Girls Clubs across the country take part in a service-learning experience through the National Torch Club Project. Free with Membership. This is a Year Round Program.
S.T.A.R.S.
S.T.A.R.S. (Students Taking Adolescent Realities Seriously) is an opportunity for youth to take a stand against issues in their community that may or may not affect them. Issues such as race, bullying, drugs, mental health, inclusion and poverty. Youth will have the chance to address these issues and come up with ways that we can make a change. Through some role play, art projects, and even some news casting we will come together to bring awareness to these issues affecting our youth today.
Open Gym
This program will introduce teens to a multitude of sports encouraging them to exercise regularly. Through making exercise fun, cooperative, and engaging our aim to create a more healthy next generation for the City of Bristol.
The Nate Mariani Outdoors Club
The Nathan Mariani Outdoors Club program strives to meet the needs of teens and youth club members living in the Bristol Community through involvement in outdoor adventures and nature exploration activities. By experiencing nature and developing skills in outdoor recreation, club members will gain a life-long appreciation and understanding for the importance of nature. This program is in memory of outdoors enthusiast, Nathan Mariani, who passed away in 2019. The Outdoors Club strives to keep his love and passion for the outdoors alive.
ALLSTARS
This is a program that is aimed to increase opportunities for physical activity, social interaction, and recognition through high-quality structured sports programming. Playing sports is about igniting a passion, belonging to a team, sportsmanship, teamwork, and building self-esteem.
Teen Cooking
This is a year-round program that prioritizes equipping club members with the tools to grow their confidence, abilities, and investment in the kitchen while helping them to investigate their personal connections to foods and cooking. The curriculum for the cooking program supports cooking skill development through reflection, experimentation, and choice-based recipes.
Money Matters: Make it Count
This is a program that prioritizes teaching teen club members how to set goals, budget, save, and invest. In addition to staff-led financial literacy sessions, young people practice their financial decision-making skills through fun, engaging digital tools and games. Teen club members who complete Money Matters show improved financial management skills, including saving money and sticking to a budget.
Passport 2 Manhood Teens
This is a program that prioritizes engaging young teen boys in discussions and activities that reinforce character, leadership, and positive behavior. Each club member receives a “passport” to underscore the notion that he/they are on a personal journey of maturation and growth. Each of the program’s sessions use interactive activities to focus on a specific aspect of character and manhood. It also includes a service project where the young teen boys will learn the importance of giving back to the community.
Career Launch
This is a program that prioritizes engaging club members to access their skills and interests, explore careers, make sound educational decisions and prepare to join our nation’s work force. Club staff and volunteers help build their job search skills and job readiness by using the Career Launch Facilitator Guide and working with teens individually or in small groups. This program provides club members with online career exploration, college and job search information and interactive activities. Mentoring, job shadowing, and training opportunities round out the program.
Lyricism 101
This is a 10-week program that prioritizes teaching club members the power of the literary arts and places them in a position as experts in the ancient oral poetic traditions that continue to thrive around the world. This program gives club members an opportunity to tell their stories, build communities, and express their artistic visions through the music of hip-hop culture and the culture of the cipher.
Power Hour (Teens)
This is a year-round program that prioritizes helping club members ages 6-18 achieve academic success by providing homework help, tutoring, and high yield learning activities. This program encourages club members to become self-directed learners while also making it fun! Dedicated staff and volunteers supervise each session and help club members complete their assignments for the day and when they are finished with their work, they may choose to participate in a variety of other engaging and educational activities to develop their skills further. Each day of the week consists of a certain theme/topic that is focused on for club members who finish their homework or do not have any assignments for the day.
SMARTGirls
This is a program that prioritizes helping girls develop towards healthy attitudes and is a small group health, fitness, prevention/education and self-esteem enhancement program designed to meet the developmental needs of girls spanning ages 13 to 18. Through dynamic sessions, hands-on 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, getting good health care and developing positive relationships with peers and adults.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.