Our children and youth programs are opportunities to explore what it means to be Unitarian Universalists and to grow together in community.
Through stories, play, creativity, learning, relationships, and reflection, children and youth are invited to make meaning, ask questions, explore their identities, and develop the skills and confidence to live our values. Along the way, they’ll learn to make choices with love at the center, celebrate human diversity, recognize and respond to injustice, and build deep, caring connections with others.
Nursery Care for Ages 0–4
We offer nursery care from 9:30–11:30 a.m. every Sunday with two trained, background-checked, experienced caregivers.
This is a drop-in program. Older children are welcome if space allows.
Soul Matters Workshops for Pre-K–5th Grades
Children in this age range are invited to choose from two workshop rooms each Sunday. This is a drop-in program; all in this age range are welcome, but some modules (see below) will require signing up ahead of time and committing to attend all or most of the weeks of the module.
Movement Workshop Room
The Movement Workshop Room allows children to choose from curated play spaces (sometimes indoors, sometimes outdoors) and materials to decide for themselves how to spend their morning, with adult supervision. As Unitarian Universalists, we learn to make choices, with love at the center. This room will always be open.
Creativity Workshop Room
The Creativity Workshop Room will encourage children to engage more deeply with the story or theme introduced in worship through a craft or other adult-led activity. As Unitarian Universalists, stories help us make meaning from chaos. This room will always be open.
Justice, Equity, and Pluralism for K–3rd Graders
This curriculum is designed to help children develop self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities. Children will learn that human diversity is a cause for celebration and that we can talk about differences while forming deep, caring connections with all kinds of people. Children will increasingly learn to recognize unfairness, develop language to talk about unfairness, and understand that unfairness hurts people. And children will be given opportunities to act with others against prejudice and discrimination.
This class will meet for eight weeks in the fall. Registration is required for children to participate.
Mental and Emotional Well-Being for 4th & 5th Graders
Understanding mental health, neurodiversity, and addiction prepares older children for the challenges many of them will face personally or in relationships with friends and family as they enter the tween and teen years. This course will equip young people with age-appropriate information about how our brains and emotions work, self-care practices and strategies, skill building around when and how to ask for help, and how to support peers who may be struggling.
This class will meet for eight weeks in the spring. Registration is required for children to participate.
Crossing Paths for 6th & 7th Grades
This group will learn about a variety of faith traditions and the ways their religious paths differ from our own. This curriculum is being revamped this year to allow more in-depth understanding of each tradition and will include two weeks of learning about (in the classroom), two weeks of learning from (interviewing a guest and visiting a house of worship), and two weeks of integration (connecting what we’ve learned to our UU faith).
This is a drop-in program; all in this age range are welcome. However, note that some Sundays will include a field trip to a neighboring place of worship and prior registration is needed to participate on these dates.
Coming of Age for 8th & 9th Grades
The core question for Coming of Age youth to engage with is “how do I identify as a Unitarian Universalist in terms of our history, beliefs, spirituality, justice work, and spirituality?” Coming of Age youth will work with adult mentors, participate in Youth Group (see below) and collaboratively create the coming of age service.
Registration is required for youth to participate.
Youth Group for 8th–12th Grades
Youth group is intended to create a sense of belonging and identity for adolescents in the congregation—and of course, be a lot of fun. The group will meet throughout the year for a wide variety of activities.
This group is open to any participant within the age range.
Registration is required for youth to participate.