Ballard Community Center offers a range of programs and special events for children, adolescents and senor citizens. It hosts various jazz concerts at Golden Gardens Bath House. The center also maintains a toddler play center and organizes child care, dance and pottery programs. Ballard Community Center also conducts several programs for teenagers in grades 6 through 12. It focuses on arts and culture, life skills and job readiness, social recreation, citizenship and leadership development, and environment education and stewardship. The center maintains an advisory council that is a group of citizens offers funds for classes, workshops, sports and special events, as well as provides its facilities on rental basis. Ballard Community Center works under the government of Seattle.