Childcare & Daycare
Boys and Girls Club
About Boys and Girls Club
Parents working in Vernon face the same arithmetic as parents anywhere. The school day ends well before the work day does, and the summer break runs a good deal longer than anyone's vacation allowance. Organisations in this line fill the gap with before and after school care, full day programs through July and August, and drop-in space for older kids who have aged out of needing a sitter but still need somewhere to be between the last bell and dinner.
Boys and Girls Club operates from 3300 37 Ave, close enough to the downtown core that pickup can be folded into the trip home rather than treated as a separate errand. Vernon spreads across a fair bit of ground, from Okanagan Landing out by the water to the older streets of East Hill and the newer subdivisions pushing south across the Commonage, so a central location saves real driving for a lot of households.
Programs of this kind usually run on registration rather than walk-in, and space in the popular age bands goes early, particularly for the summer months. Call ahead and ask which age groups are running this term, whether there is a waiting list, how fees are structured and whether any subsidy applies. Ask about transportation as well, since some programs collect children from schools directly and others expect a parent to make the handoff. Those answers shift from season to season, and one conversation in the spring beats scrambling in the last week of June.
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In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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