Children & Teen Programs

Our Ages 5 and Under program fosters interactive play in a safe, supportive environment where children can explore, learn, and grow. We:

• Facilitate interactive play
• Provide a safe, supportive environment
• Model and encourage healthy relationships and interactions

Through activities & programs such as budgeting, Yoga, ballet, theater, improvisational dance, nature education, arts and craft, drumming, age-appropriate workshops on coping skills for emotions, we:

• Create safe environment for friendships and personal growth
• Promote positive self-esteem and aid in positive identity formation
• Cultivate appropriate coping skills for emotions
• Provide effective mentoring relationships to children

Through activities & programs such as budgeting, Yoga, discussions about their highs/lows/hopes, the options they have and the decisions they have to make on a regular basis, critical thinking lessons for developing skills of reason, comprehension, and communication. We also have peer driven therapeutic drumming sessions, and age-appropriate workshops on issues such as dating violence, healthy relationships, and managing emotions. In this way, we:

• Increase positive behavior through psychosocial education
• Promote and model healthy relationships and interactions
• Promote positive self-esteem and aid in positive identity formation
• Cultivate age appropriate coping skills
• Reinforce importance of completing high school, encourage post high school education and/or learning a skill and trade for a stable career
• Opportunity to explore different career paths
• Offer resources and recommend tuition and/or scholarships for specific art forms