Miramar

Before he became an internationally touring pop star, a regular on the Billboard charts and a judge on the hit reality-entertainment show “So You Think You Can Dance,” and before he was showing precocious musical-theater talent in the halls of Fort Lauderdale’s prestigious Dillard Center for the Arts, Miramar native Jason Derulo was a kid with time on his hands.

And that’s when the Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County stepped in.

“I was looking for something to do after school and my mom definitely needed some help, you know, not having me be home by myself,” says Derulo, speaking by phone from Los Angeles. “She was in school and she was working, so she was not home a lot....