BBYO provides Jewish living and learning experiences for Jewish teenagers. Programs include holiday celebrations, religious services, inter-faith activities, institutes and seminars, music and dramatics, speech contests and athletic contests. BBYO operates youth camps in Starlight, Pennsylvania and in Mukwonago, Wisconsin that are used for Judaism programs and youth leadership training. The camps, with separate annual budgets are self-sustained. A summer exchange program for members for study and work in Israel is sponsored, with Israeli teenagers sent to the United States for a similar experience.
Most programming takes place on the local level.
Great reliance is placed upon 1,500 volunteer advisors to chapters with recruitment and training of volunteers conducted by professional staff. About one-third of the BBYO chapters meet in Jewish Community Centers. BBYO estimates that one-fourth of its chapters are in small communities without Center or Synagogue youth programs.