The Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest County is one of the fastest growing youth development agencies in Southwest Riverside County serving more than six hundred young people each day. With sites located in Temecula, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore, the club known for being "The Positive Place for Kids," offers several innovative programs and fun activities to provide positive personal growth experiences for the local youth, while in a safe, supervised and structured environment. Turning no child away, the mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest County is to inspire and enable all youth to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens by providing stimulating and challenging programs through interaction with dedicated caring people.

In 1990 a small yet insightful group of community minded people realized the need for a safe place for children to go after school, the first Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest County programs were started on the Margarita Middle School site in Temecula, offering after school programs to middle school children. The Club expanded to its current facility in Old Town Temecula in 1994. Three years later we expanded into Murrieta on the campus of Shivela Middle School, offering sports clinics after school. In 1998 the Murrieta Club moved to a permanent site in a double-wide facility at the California Oaks Sports Park, and quickly grew into a quad-wide facility which we are currently occupying. The Club opened the Pechanga Great Oak Clubhouse in Kent Hindergardt Park in May of 2006. The Alberhill Ranch Clubhouse in Lake Elsinore opened in January of 2007. The Club is now planning to break ground in French Valley in 2009. This new facility will house a full-size Clubhouse and will be the new headquarters for Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest County.

The corporate office of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest County is located in Temecula. The club is part of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America national network of more than 3,000 neighborhood-based facilities annually serving some 3.3 million young people, primarily from disadvantaged circumstances. Additional information on the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest County can be found at www.bgcswc.org.