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Imani Muhammad of the Rockwood Boys & Girls Club oversees a basketball clinic held in partnership with the Portland Trail Blazers during the club’s grand opening
last fall. The Nike-sponsored gym is one of many amenities available to youth over the summer to serve families and single-part homes of outer east Portland.
Stepping Up for Kids
Rockwood Boys & Girls Club’s first summer
By d anny P eterson
t he P ortland o Bserver
The Rockwood Boys & Girls Club is
now taking signups for its very first sum-
mer season of activities and programs serv-
ing a growing need to an ethnically diverse
and often economically disadvantaged
population in east Portland and Gresham.
The youth organization’s eight-week
summer program begins June 25 for chil-
dren ages six to 18. An open house will be
hosted on Saturday, June 2, from 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m. for parents to visit the club, meet
the staff, and hear about the wide-range of
programming available to keep kids safe
for summer.
Before the Rockwood Boys & Girls
Club opened last October, families and sin-
gle parent households in the area it serves
had few, if any, hubs for after school and
summer programs serving kids. The new
facilities are one of seven Boys & Girls
Clubs across the Portland metro area
dedicated to providing youth enrichment
programming after school and during the
summer.
“We create our programming around
the interests of the children,” Imani Mu-
hammad,38, the Rockwood Club’s senior
director of programs, told the Portland Ob-
C ontinued on P age 4