Members of the International Portuguese Sports Club spend their winter hours getting in shape for the upcoming spring soccer season and socializing in their club house.

Joe Vicente, a member of the club, said his organization's 30 members use the winter months to relax in the club's bar.

Although some clubs focus primarily on entertainment and social activities, many organizations have created social service components to aid members of their communities.

One such organization is the Concilio Hispano, a group which employs and targets Hispanics in the Cambridge community.

Lisette Badillo, the program's director, said her organization provides care and counseling for mentally ill and at-risk teens.

"We run an office at the [Cambridge] high school for students. We do drug, pregnancy, and dropout prevention," Badillo said.

Like Concilio Hispano, the Haitian American Cultural Society targets high school and teen-aged youth.

Program director Andre Joseph said the society is concerned with educating Haitian youth for leadership positions in the Haitian community.

"Most of our activities are concerned with youth training activities," Joseph said.

Joseph said a tournament of dominoes and cards, to be held Saturday, will "also be an occasion to discuss AIDS, violence and teen pregnancy."

More than 50 older men gathered around brown, plastic-topped tables in the social hall of the club, playing cards, nursing drinks, smoking cigars and swapping stories in Greek.