Community Centers & Recreation
In this section, you will find resources for teens and young adults who want to participate in recreational and community activities throughout San Diego County, such as local recreation centers, clubhouses for specialized needs, activities for a variety of interests, and volunteer opportunities.
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Use the tools below to find the community centers & recreation resources that fit your unique set of needs.
City of San Diego: Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteers assist the City’s workforce in enhancing services to the public by performing tasks beyond the capacity and scope of current City employees, including fundraising efforts.
(619) 236-6082
Street of Dreams: Musicians for Education
Street of Dreams provides a music and arts education, college prep program for teen mothers who are at high risk wards of the court and have been trapped in the juvenile justice system. Our students come from foster care, incarceration, and homelessness.
(619) 282-3355
Our Place Center for Self-Esteem
Our Place Center of Self-Esteem is a non-profit training and support center that empowers children and adults through courses designed to raise the awareness of self and self-esteem to feel good about themselves, to prevent the occurrence of physical, spiritual, or emotional abuse.
(619) 262-9951
San Diego Humane Society
Compassionate, dedicated volunteers are needed in all areas of our shelters. It’s important to us that volunteering be a full and meaningful experience for everyone who participates. We recruit new volunteers for our general program on an every-other-month basis, giving us time to meet the hundreds of people who submit applications and make sure they are properly trained and placed in an appropriate program before they begin. Other locations: Oceanside: (760) 757-4357, 572 Airport Road, Oceanside, CA 92058 and Escondido: (760) 888-2275, 3450 E. Valley Parkway, Escondido, CA 92027
(619) 299-7012
YMCA: National City Aquatics Center
Because the Y is for everyone, we bring together children, adults and families of all abilities like no other organization can. As a result, hundreds of thousands in San Diego County are receiving the support, guidance and resources needed to achieve greater health and well-being for their spirit, mind and body. We focus our work in three key areas, because nurturing the potential of kids, helping people live healthier and supporting our neighbors are fundamental to strengthening communities.
(619) 495-0701
YMCA: Borderview Branch
Because the Y is for everyone, we bring together children, adults and families of all abilities like no other organization can. As a result, hundreds of thousands in San Diego County are receiving the support, guidance and resources needed to achieve greater health and well-being for their spirit, mind and body. We focus our work in three key areas, because nurturing the potential of kids, helping people live healthier and supporting our neighbors are fundamental to strengthening communities.
(619) 428-9622
Boys and Girls Club of Greater San Diego
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego changes lives through quality programs and guidance in a safe, affordable and fun environment. We serve kids ages 5 to 18-years old with academic success, character development, and healthy lifestyle programs at 17 community-based sites countywide.
Phone numbers for each branch can be found here: http://www.sdyouth.org/Locations.aspx
(858) 866-0591
Youth Venture Teen Center: Santee Center
Youth Venture is a community based, Christ centered, guidance program open to all youth between the 6th and 12th grade. The teen center and Skate Park offer adult supervision and friendship, after school and on weekends. Youth Venture, a ministry of Foothills Christian Church, was formed to assist teens in learning the basic principles for successful living found in the Bible, and to help establish significant relationships for those teens with mature adults. Youth Venture serves to support the efforts of parents to instill in their children sound character and sound life goals. Youth Venture seeks to develop a peer group for teens that is drug-free, moral and goal-oriented.
(619) 258-9606
Youth Venture Teen Center: Lakeside Center
Youth Venture is a community based, Christ centered, guidance program open to all youth between the 6th and 12th grade. The teen center and Skate Park offer adult supervision and friendship, after school and on weekends. Youth Venture, a ministry of Foothills Christian Church, was formed to assist teens in learning the basic principles for successful living found in the Bible, and to help establish significant relationships for those teens with mature adults. Youth Venture serves to support the efforts of parents to instill in their children sound character and sound life goals. Youth Venture seeks to develop a peer group for teens that is drug-free, moral and goal-oriented.
(619) 390-8007
Youth Venture Teen Center: South El Cajon Center
Youth Venture is a community based, Christ centered, guidance program open to all youth between the 6th and 12th grade. The teen center and Skate Park offer adult supervision and friendship, after school and on weekends. Youth Venture, a ministry of Foothills Christian Church, was formed to assist teens in learning the basic principles for successful living found in the Bible, and to help establish significant relationships for those teens with mature adults. Youth Venture serves to support the efforts of parents to instill in their children sound character and sound life goals. Youth Venture seeks to develop a peer group for teens that is drug-free, moral and goal-oriented.
(619) 633-0040
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We do not endorse any specific organization listed nor are we responsible for ensuring the quality of the services listed. Users should always select services at their own discretion. Additionally, this information is subject to change as funding for programs can shift over time, though we do our very best to keep the resource center as up-to-date as possible.