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Youth Resiliency Building Program (In-Person) - Day at the Park

  • scioto audubon park 400 West Whittier Street Columbus, OH, 43215 United States (map)

Join us for a day at the park!— held at Scioto Audubon Metro Park.

Scioto Audubon Metro Park

  • Drop off and pick up from the Park

  • Bring a packed lunch with a water bottle

  • Have youth wear clothes that can get dirty and shoes for running/exploring.

  • Plan for outdoor activities, like a nature scavenger hunt, games

  • Please Register with the Register tab at the top right!

Encompass Adoptees’ youth program is for kids adopted, in foster care, or in kinship care between 7-12/13 years old. It combines elements of both a support group and a mentoring program, and offers parents 3 hrs of daytime respite. The program curriculum is designed by an adult adoptee who is also a therapist, to offer art-based activities and interactions that promote resilience building, character development, and support in processing experiences related to being adopted, fostered, and/or kinshipped.

The program is developed and facilitated by adult mentors who have lived experience and are available to youth throughout the program at a ratio of one mentor per one-two youth.

Activities differ each month.


2-3pm Mentor Meeting & Debrief