Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County, founded in 1986, provide a safe environment where young people can reach their full potential. It provides after-school programs during the school year and all-day activities during the summer months.
Kaycee Headrick, Executive Director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County, will speak at the Rotary Club of Estes Park on Thursday, Feb. 1, at their regular noon meeting. She will discuss how the Clubs impact youth in Larimer County and the Estes Valley.
Kaycee Headrick
At the Clubs, youth learn to work and play together, are given structure and responsibility, and learn about the benefits of education. Students become more self confident and develop character, and hence, more motivated to avoid alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and early sexual experimentation. In such an environment, youth can discover how to see beyond the walls of their current situation and realize they can succeed. They become better people and better members of the community and future citizens.
In 2014, in conjunction with the Estes Park School District, the Clubs opened a summer program serving more than 50 youth a day in Estes Park.
Headrick earned a B.S. in Arts and Sciences from South Dakota State. She has worked with the Boys & Girls Clubs in South Dakota and Larimer County since 2008 in a variety of roles. She has been Director of Operations, Program Development Director, Unit Director, Program Director, and Youth Impact Director, and is currently the Executive Director
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. There are 1.2 million Rotary members in 34,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Rotary clubs have been serving communities worldwide for more than a century. Rotary clubs around the world initiate projects that address critical issues such as conflict resolution, hunger, poverty, disease and illiteracy.
The Rotary Club of Estes Park meets Thursdays at the Rodeway Inn in Estes Park, located at 1701 North Lake Avenue on Highway 34 just west of Dry Gulch Road. Visitors interested in learning more about Rotary and its programs are welcome to attend. Buffet is served at 11:30 a.m., the Rotary business meeting opens at noon, and the program begins at 12:30 p.m.
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