Are you looking for child-friendly resources and services?
Whether you are looking for a place for your child to enjoy after school or an extracurricular activity to encourage an area of interest, you can find opportunities in our listings. Some programs also provide extra services like extended hours, availability on snow days and holidays, and camps during summer and winter breaks. Several offer discounts for UK employees. Take a look!
UK does not endorse any of these camps or special programs. We provide these listings to support families with up-to-date information to assist with child care planning.
Individual, Relational, and Financial Therapy Clinic (I-RAFT Clinic) Attending fair
The University of Kentucky's Individual, Relational, and Financial Therapy (I-RAFT) Clinic is a community wellness facility supporting mental health and personal finance needs in the community. Our staff consists of therapy interns and financial coaching interns.
Our therapist interns are in their Family Sciences Master's program at UK. Our interns are supervised weekly by their clinical supervisors who are licensed Marriage and Family therapists within UK's Family Sciences faculty..
Financial coaches are enrolled in UK’s Family Financial Counseling (FFC) undergraduate program. These financial coaches are under the direct supervision and instruction of Accredited Financial Counselors® within the Family Financial Counseling faculty. Financial coaching services are provided to the public community at no cost.
https://fam.ca.uky.edu/family-center
Nathan D. Wood, PhD, LMFT
859-257-7755
IRAFTclinic@uky.edu
Hours of operation
Monday-Friday 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Cost
All services are based on a sliding scale fee.
Newton's Attic Attending fair
Newton's Attic is a STEM (Science Technology Engineering & Math) education non-profit dedicated to providing students with highly unusual educational experiences and providing STEM educational resources to parents, teachers, and students at all grade levels. Our mission is to stimulate interest in science and engineering through exciting hands-on projects, classes, and summer camps.
Our summer STEM day camps offer a mix of robotics, coding, chemistry, and pre-engineering in the areas of mechanical, electrical, and aerospace systems. Classes are small with personalized instruction , and participants learn skills including basic physics and engineering principles, the design process as well as hand and power tool use.
Dawn Cloyd or Trish Preece
859-368-7334 or 859-492-8511
Office@NewtonsAttic.org
Hours of operation
Summer day camps run on a week-by-week bases Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (extended hours by request) late may through early August.
Safe Kids Fayette County Attending fair
Childhood injury prevention program lead by Kentucky Children's Hospital
https://ukhealthcare.uky.edu/safe-kids-fayette-county
Safe Kids Sherri Hannan
859-323-1153
sherri.hannan@uky.edu
Hours of operation
Varies. Weekdays. Some evenings and weekends.
Cost
Injury prevention workshops/programs are free.