Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe provides a safe, structured, and supportive environment for youth during out-of-school hours. 

Programs are available before and after school, on holidays, and during summer break.

Program details include:

• Youth development activities in sports, art, computers, robotics, and leadership
• Dedicated programs for teens, including social events and enrichment opportunities
• Low-cost enrollment options

Web pages

• Home - https://www.bgcnlt.org/

Tahoe's Connection for Families provides parenting education and early childhood programs for families with children (aged birth to 42 months) in the North Lake Tahoe area.

Services include:

• Parent/child classes and enrichment activities
• Prenatal education and parenting support
• Open gym sessions for play and exploration

The first visit is free. Membership fees and scholarships are available—see website for details.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.tcfkids.org/

SkiDUCK provides free skiing and snowboarding experiences for underserved youth. 

Services include:

• Offering free lift tickets, rentals, and lessons to youth ages 7–18
• Partnering with local agencies that serve low-income or at-risk youth
• Coordinating seasonal trips at Palisades Tahoe and surrounding Lake Tahoe areas

Programs are offered during the winter season. Community groups can request partnership to arrange group participation.

Web pages

• Home - https://skiduck.org/

Girl Scouts prepares girls for a lifetime of leadership, success, and adventure in a safe, no-limits place designed for and by girls.

The Girl Scout Leadership Experience is a collection of engaging, challenging, and fun activities that help Girl Scouts prepare for a lifetime of leadership, success, and adventure. Each level of Girl Scouts is unique with a wide variety of activities to try. As a Girl Scout progresses, every level builds upon the last and allows them to explore their interests.

Activities include (but are not limited to):

• Earning badges
• Going on trips
• Selling cookies
• Exploring the outdoors
• Doing community service projects.

Web pages

• Main - https://www.girlscouts.org/

​Girls on the Run - Sierras inspires girls to be healthy and confident by using an experience-based curriculum which integrates running.

Girls on the Run combines training for a 5K (3.1 miles) fun run with healthy living education. Their programs instill self-esteem and strong values through health education, life skills development, mentoring relationships, and physical training - all of which are accomplished through an active collaboration with girls and their parents, schools, volunteers, staff, and the community.

Web pages

• Home - www.girlsontherunsierras.org/

Genders & Sexualities Alliances unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities.

There are 3 different types of GSAs—all of which can directly impact LGBTQ+ youth: Social, Support, and Activist. Every GSA can create its own mission and goals to meet the needs of its members and the unique climate of their school.

• Social GSAs — Students meet and connect with other trans and queer students on campus
• Support GSAs — Students work to create safe spaces and talk about the various issues they face in school or their broader communities, such as discrimination from teachers or school administrators
• Activist GSAs — Students take a leadership role to improve school climate through campaigns and events that raise awareness and change policies or practices in their schools.
  

Web pages

• Home - https://gsanetwork.org/

The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) offers Books UnBanned, a national initiative that provides free digital library access to teens and young adults affected by book bans and censorship across the United States.

Services include:

• Free BPL eCards for youth ages 13–21 living anywhere in the U.S.
• One-year access to 350,000+ eBooks, 200,000+ audiobooks, and 100+ databases
• Participation in a teen-led digital community promoting intellectual freedom
• Opportunities to share personal stories, essays, and reflections on book bans

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Web pages

• Home - https://www.bklynlibrary.org/

The HOPE National Resource Center offers research, resources, trainings and technical assistance to children and their families.

The program focuses on emphasizing four foundations to a healthy childhood upbringing, and provides information related to this concept.

Those foundations include:

• Relationships within the family and with other children and adults through interpersonal activities
• Safe, equitable, stable environments for living, playing, learning at home and in school
• Social and civic engagement to develop a sense of belonging and connectedness
• Emotional growth through playing and interacting with peers for self-awareness and self-regulation

Web pages

• Home - https://positiveexperience.org/