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The Boys & Girls Club of Southwestern Oregon is dedicated to assisting all youth to achieve their fullest potential by enhancing their self-esteem, providing positive role models, and by helping them develop the qualities needed to become caring, productive, responsible citizens. An after-school drop-in Youth Center (grades 1-6) and Teen Center (grades 7-12) provide arts & crafts, technology, a gymnasium, a central games room with pool, foosball, and bumper pool, access to tennis, and a learning center with educational enrichment programs.

Provides cable TV service, telephone, and internet service.   

Little Theatre on the Bay, known as “LTOB,” is the second oldest continuous acting group in the state of Oregon. It is an all-volunteer non-profit organization. LTOB produces musicals, dramas, comedy, and variety shows of all kinds. LTOB's home is the historic Liberty Theater.

The Office of Emergency Management (OEM) maintains an emergency services system by planning, preparing and providing for the prevention, mitigation and management of emergencies or disasters that present a threat to the lives and property of citizens of and visitors to the State of Oregon. The agency is responsible for coordinating and facilitating emergency planning, preparedness, response and recovery activities with the state and local emergency services agencies and organizations. OEM coordinates and maintains a statewide emergency services system for emergency and disaster communications. OEM awards grant funding to local governments, coordinates search and rescue efforts, and the State 9-1-1 Program. The Drought Council and Oregon Seismic Safety Advisory Commission (OSSPAC) also operate out of OEM.

OEM's web site has information and preparedness plans for earthquakes, tsunamis, and other emergencies and disasters.

The Business Development Center is operated by the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay and Southwestern Oregon Community College. The Center assists new and existing businesses, small business management program, workshops, and offers free, confidential business counseling.  The Center is utilized as a business incubator for those who are striving to start their own business or need assistance in taking their business to the next level.