GOAL: To help young people develop academic, behavioral and social skills through homework completion

WHY: Homework completion is a critical component of academic success.

WHO: Boys & Girls Club members ages 6-18

WHAT: The Power Hour: Making Minutes Count program, sponsored by the JCPenney Afterschool Fund, provides Club professionals with strategies, activities, resources and information to create a homework help and tutoring program that engages Club members. Power Hour addresses the following:

• Conducting engaging, beneficial homework help programs for Club members ages 6-12 and 13-18

• Conducting a beneficial, one-to-one tutoring program for all ages

• Research strategies for teens

• Strategies to make homework fun

• Recognition and incentive strategies, tips for tracking progress and a new tracking poster

• Behavior management during Power Hour

• Volunteer recruitment and training

• Collaboration with outside institutions

• Scheduling considerations

• Philosophy and purpose of homework help in a Boys & Girls Club

• Character development through homework completion

• Homework help and tutoring with hard-to-reach youth

• Use of technology and the Internet to support homework help and tutoring

• Supplemental activities

• Sample funding proposals

• Other free or low-cost resources

• Promising Club practices