The program is made possible through collaboration with Old Fellowship Baptist Church and Eldora Baptist Mission, who donate their parsonage building for program use during the week. The program focuses on developmentally appropriate, exploration-based activities that allow individual children to develop their cognitive and social skills at an individual pace. Much of the program is devoted to individual discovery in a series of learning centers. The centers include activities such as reading, creative art, hands-on science projects, construction projects, woodworking, large motor play, and organized recreational sports. Children are served a nutritious snack and participate in a structured homework and learning enrichment period every day.
Parents volunteer to share their special skills on project days.
Computer and Internet use is also an essential component of the curriculum. The B.A.S.S. program is committed to working with this same group of children throughout the five-year grant period in order to track the effects of our ongoing interventions as the children develop. The B.A.S.S. program collaborates with other local organizations to build strengths in youth, families, and the Eldora community as a whole. B.A.S.S. staff have arranged for Ogeechee Technical Institute instructors to teach GED preparation classes at the mission building. The site coordinator arranged for the Bulloch County public library to deliver books to the mission building so that local children could participate in the library's summer reading program.