Winners Club of Calhoun Inc

Winner's Club provides children with love,
mentoring and self-esteem building.  The program is designed to
help children develop into the best people they can be.  The motto
of the Winner's Club is "everyone can be a winner at
something.   Children referred to us have been identified as
at-risk and often are experiencing difficulty at school.  Many of
the children referred to us have gotten into trouble at school and in
the community.  At the Winner's Club these children interact with
many adult role models who become mentors to these children.  This
role modeling and mentoring at the Winner's Club is intensive,
relationships formed at the Winner's Club can last decades as the child
can enter the program and remain until their 21 st birthday.  Most of
these children have very low self-esteem and many have already given up
on life, they believe they are doomed to fail in life.  Many of
these children are form broken homes, blended families and single
parent families, families with problems such as molestation, child
abuse, neglect and addiction.  Most of our families are
economically disadvantaged and survive on SSI, Food Stamps, Peach Care,
Medicaid, Public Housing, Fee Lunch and other programs.  Many of
our children are no longer in the care of their birth parents. 
Some of our children are in foster homes, group-homes; some are in the
custody of DEFACS, YDC or RYDC.  The children and families we
serve are definitely some of the most at-risk and disadvantaged in
Gordon County. Most of the children we serve have been deprived of a
loving environment in which they can feel secure and loved.  Some
of these children have been abused and are suspicious and untrusting of
all adults.  In the Winner's club the children interact for years
with caring adult role models.  Trust in adults is re-established,
self-esteem is built, and children learn that they are loved. 
With confidence and self-esteem rebuilt many of these children begin
performing at a higher level at school and develop a better self-image.