Social Groups - on hold until fall 2019

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Superhero Play Club is a play-based social group for pre-school aged children, centering around a fun, engaging Superhero theme! The goal of this group is to foster appropriate play skills for this age group, focusing on facilitating pretend play and progressing from parallel play to associative play. 

Ages

3-5 years old

Schedule

6-week program

 |scheduled on a rotating basis, minimum of 3 participants required| 

Location

Santosha Wellness 

Wilderness Explorers Club is a nature-based program to teach and improve social skills in a fun, meaningful way. Each class will be held outdoors, and at the end of the 6-week session, the club will take an outing to a local nature preserve. Throughout this 6-week program, kids will be introduced to variety of outdoor sensory-motor play, mindfulness, and connection activities all structured around a social-emotional learning curriculum to help build confidence, make friends, and have more control of their emotions and behaviors. 

Ages

4-6 years old

Schedule

6-week program 

|scheduled on a rotating basis, minimum of 3 participants required|
Location

Santosha Wellness

Craft Club is a social group designed to foster both social skills and fine motor skills in a fun, meaningful way, utilizing arts and crafts as a medium for learning. Each week, we'll make fun craft projects while progressing through a social-emotional learning curriculum. 

Ages

7-12 years old 

Schedule

6-week program 

|scheduled on a rotating basis, minimum of 3 participants required| 

Location

Santosha Wellness

Food Scientists Club is an exciting, engaging group that will foster social skills through the exploration of science and food. We will cook, eat, do science experiments, and more, all while exploring our emotions, learning how to be good friends, and embracing our uniqueness! 

Ages

7-12 years old 

Schedule

6-week program

|scheduled on a rotating basis, minimum of 3 participants required| 

Location

Santosha Wellness

Our Life Skills Groups are intended for pre-teens and teens, in order to teach basic life skills in a supportive social environment. Life Skills I will teach kids more basic skills such as dressing, chores, proper hygiene, simple meal preparation, and time management. Life Skills II is intended to then progress the above skills towards pre-vocational and more complex life skills, such as money management, applying for jobs, use of transportation, and more.

Ages

11-14 years old; 14-18 years old

Schedule

6-8 week program

|scheduled on a rotating basis, minimum of 3 participants required| 

Location

TBD 

Social skills and emotional awareness are vitally important all throughout development, as it's necessary for children to learn to understand and manage all their emotions, how their actions impact others, and how to interact with others day in and day out. In each of our social groups, we help kids to first understand what they are feeling, how to manage each emotion appropriately, how to make friends and interact with others, how to play social games (ie. tag), and more!

Each of our Social Groups is designed based on evidenced-based social-emotional learning curriculum, a deep understanding of child development, and an appreciation that learning is at its best when it is centered around a meaningful occupation (hence our themed groups). We dedicate hours of time to research and develop each group to best meet the needs of the kids enrolled.  

We require a minimum of 3 participants in each group in order for it to run