The JP Innovation Project (JPIP) has joined the Boys & Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley to help provide our members with guidance, support, and funding for our Clubhouse Network site, located in our Alamosa Clubhouse at 1115 Tenth Street in Alamosa. This on-site location, also known as the Tech Room,
provides our membership with access to a variety of resources including; a multi-station computer lab, 3D modeling & printing, graphic design, video production, in addition to musical instruments and a sound studio.  

We offer workshops and a learning model where youth have free rein over what they want to learn and create. Under the Clubhouse Learning Model members learn: Robotics, Coding, Game Design, Web Design, Photoshop, Digital Art, Animation, Graphic Design, Pixel Art, Logo Creation, Video Production, Stop Motion, Music Production, Music Theory, 3D Modeling, 3D Printing, Vinyl Cutting, Heat Press, and Embroidery. The list of learning topics is ever-expanding and driven by the imagination and goals of our members.

Music lives and breathes in the Clubhouse and Wednesdays are dedicated to learning and making music. Members may be found experimenting with electronic keyboards, following a sing along, working on ukulele lessons, or recording in our on-site sound studio. We are always exploring music in our after school programs and encouraging members to find their inner muse.

Bethany, a native of the Wild and Wonderful state of West Virginia, is new to the Valley but brings a passion for developing compassionate communities to the Club. With over a decade of experience developing and leading youth programs and working in acute behavioral and psychiatric medicine, Bethany hopes to create an inclusive, safe, and fun Boys & Girls Club experience in Saguache, Colorado.  

Bethany earned her Masters in Public Health with an emphasis in Social and Behavioral Sciences. She further received formal training to become a Certified Health Education Specialist. In college, she co-founded a non-profit outdoor-environmental education, leadership, and stewardship school for youth that celebrated community and collaboration. In graduate school, she often worked with adolescents, adults, and pregnant and/or postpartum individuals receiving medication assisted detoxification and rehabilitation services for substance use disorders.

Bethany hopes to collaborate with the community and celebrate the youthful Club members who inspire the future of the Valley.