Urban Adventures
Urban Adventures is a free 5-week summer youth program designed to provide children with a fun-filled summer camp-like experience within the heart of Lawrence while promoting social-emotional learning, environmental stewardship, sustainability, nutrition, academic excellence, team building, creative expression, and regional exploration.
Groundwork Lawrence is working in partnership with community-based organizations and local schools to administer this program. Urban Adventures is designed for youth, aged 10 – 14 years of age, to create service-learning projects with the goal to promote positive change and community learning on topics such as healthy food access, urban agriculture, and/or environmental stewardship.
Urban Adventures is supported in part by our lead sponsors Essex County Community Foundation’s (ECCF) Greater Lawrence Summer Fund, a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) from the City of Lawrence, and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).
Questions? Contact Yaritza (Yari).
Interested in working in Education?
Our seasonal summer programming positions can give you the experience in teaching and community work that you’ve been looking for! Every summer we hire Urban Adventures Counselors to lead in the classroom.
Urban Adventures Summer 2023
During Urban Adventures (UA) 2023, Groundwork Lawrence partnered with Guilmette Middle School, The Community Group at the Arlington School, Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence and the YMCA of Lawrence to bring Urban Adventures to Lawrence youth!
Urban Adventures participants focused on learning about Urban Agriculture. Youth learned about gardening, farming, fresh food, had the opportunity to plant their own seeds, and imagine themselves as farmers and chefs. By the end of UA, youth could create their own farms through drawing and dioramas and restaurant menus with fresh foods as the focus.
