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Help us make the
Clearwater Community Aquatic and Health Center
A Reality!!
An
effort by people in Clearwater County, Idaho to plan,
finance and build a multipurpose
Clearwater Community Complex, Inc. |
Youth Center
A proposed element of the Clearwater Community
Complex
Guidelines |
Facilities Needed | Square Footages |
Plot Plan
| Main User Groups |
| Teens |
K-6th |
Don't like being around "little kids"
Don't like adults baby sitting
or watching them
Like informal setting
Like "hanging out",
conversation areas,
sitting around, listening to music, watching
TV/videos-inactive pastimes
Like self directed activities
Generally
not as interested in arts and crafts and home ec |
Like being around teens
Expect and like adult direction
Need more
formal settings than teens
Short attention spans-not as interested in
hanging out and conversation.
Tend to bounce from one activity to
another
Like computers
Like TV and videos
Like arts and crafts and
home ec
Need direction in all activities |
What types of programs might take place in Youth Center?
- Teen center
- After school programs
- Weekend programs
- Summer camps
- Baby sitting/daycare
- Safe haven-place for parents to meet, drop off, or pick up kids.
- "Place or schedule filler" for family schedules.
- Facilities for area youth groups to meet and have events.
- Baby sitting/day care during Community Center events.
Common needs of both Teen and K-6 areas.
Entrance/office area:
- interception and screening-control access
- information, brochure, and bulletin board area
- parent drop off and pick up area
- waiting area
- customer service counter
- public phone/kid's phone
- staff and director office areas--This area should have line of sight to
all kid's areas
Rest rooms:
- must be accessible to youth but not unscreened persons
- 2 restrooms for K-6
- 2 restrooms for Teens
Food service area:
- kitchen/snack preparation area
- vending area
Quiet Areas:
- studying
- reading
- tutoring
K-6 dedicated area. Controlled access club house style.
Arts and crafts area
Game/play area:
- pool tables
- foosball
- ping pong
- skill games
- learning games
- Lego® table
- board games
- puzzles
- sand table
Tech area:
- computers
- audio-visual area
Outside play area:
K-6 need:
- direct viewable access to the gym
- indirect access to the pool, library, tech center, arts center, museum.
Teen area-more open access club house style
Conversation "pits"
- intimate hangouts
- lower light levels
- TV-video games
- lower sound and activity level
Computer area:
- This would probably be a noisy/active comp area separate from the tech
center.
Outdoor fun/play area
- wheeled fun area-roller skates/blades, bikes, and skate boards
- paved/grass area-B-ball, volley ball
Teens would have:
- direct access to outdoore paved and grass area, wheeled fun area,and
tech center?
- indirect access to pool, library, gym, arts center, and museum
| Office |
600 |
Storage=200x2 |
800 |
Rest Rooms=300x2 |
600 |
| Kitchen/snack |
300 |
Vending |
120 |
Quiet Study |
1000 |
| Arts and Crafts |
400 |
K-6 play/game |
1500 |
Teen play/game |
900 |
| K-6 outdoors |
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Teen outdoors |
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| 5320 sq. ft. + Outdoor Areas |
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Help us make the
Clearwater Community Complex a reality.
Purchase a tile or make a 501C3 corp. tax deductable
donation today!
Feel free to join in our planning sessions. General
meetings are every other Tuesday at 6:00pm in the downstairs conference
room at the Helgeson Hotel.
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Clearwater Community Complex, Inc.
P.O. Box 1756
Orofino, ID 83544
(208) 476-3158
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