Bored, unsupervised kids often start trouble. But this week’s 7Everyday Hero is doing something about it.

Maureen Baumler volunteers every afternoon at the J. Churchill Owen Branch of the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Denver. Baumler volunteers at an afternoon homework help zone called “the power hour.”

She said word of encouragement can be very powerful: "It shows them that somebody cares to take the time - which is so important in these little lives - because we only have them for 18 or 12 years, and then they're gone."

Baumler is not a formal teacher, just someone who cares.

"She is just phenomenal. She is a firecracker," said Kristine Cohn, Volunteer Resource Manager.

"She's really nice and she helps all the kids read - and I think a lot of them improved," said Monica Bonabich, a seventh-grader

Thanks, in part, to Baumler, the branch sees anywhere from 250 to 300 per day.