Activities must take place at the center for the first 6 months. Outside activities are permitted after 6 months. Drama - teaching the youth and teens acting skills in the morning during summers and afternoons throughout the year. This includes learning lines, drama exercises and acting improvs. Volunteers are welcome to create thematic skits with the school age children as well as performances for the center.
Volunteers are welcome to write, direct, produce plays, performances, etc. with the membership.
Our youth center staff sits on advisory committees at the Justice Center and helps to engage community agencies to enhance our capacity to divert at-risk youth and delinquents from further involvement in the criminal justice system. Under the direction of a professional artist, this visual arts program engages teens and homebound senior citizens in Union Settlement intergenerational program in a year-long project that uses painting and collage to help them express and preserve their life histories. Through United Neighborhood Houses, our youth program has, for years, benefited from the services of a Polytech student intern, who assists Tech Lab staff with curriculum development, technical support and classroom instruction.