Please complete the following information about all of the children/youth in your household, ages 0 to 18.

Nursery Care for ages 0 to 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 welcome if space allows.

Soul Matters Workshops for Pre-K to 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/most of the weeks of the module.

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.

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.

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 COA youth to engage with is "how do I identify as a Unitarian Universalist in terms of our history, beliefs, spirituality, justice work, and spirituality?" COA 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 to 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.

Please tell us a little about what level/frequency of help you might be able to offer our program.  While we do have many folks who are not currently parenting children or youth who contribute time and energy to our programs, we also know that participation is one of the best ways for parents/guardians to get connected and learn and grow in UU faith. 

Thank you for completing this registration form.  We are looking forward to a wonderful year of learning, community building, worship, showing up on the side of love, and leadership.