Odyssey House preschoolers sing “Feliz Navidad”
Wishing you a wonderful holiday season, from our family to yours!…
Category: children
Manor Family Center gets a new playground
Last Saturday, more than 250 volunteers from KaBOOM! , Kraft Foods and New York Academy of Medicine, in addition to volunteers from local universities and community organizations, joined Odyssey House staff and clients to build a new playground at the Manor Family Center.
Monkey bars and spiral slides: a new playground for the Manor
The kids at the Odyssey House Manor will soon be getting a state-of-the-art playground to call their own. Partnering with Kraft Foods Foundation and the New York Academy of Medicine, KaBOOM! has selected Odyssey House as one of their community partners once again. To…
Ready, Set, Play!
The children at Family Re-Entry now have a beautiful new playground! More than 150 volunteers from Odyssey House, KaBOOM!, KOOL-AID and our community partners braved the rain to assemble the playground and build the side projects. We were joined by…
Playground design & volunteer information
Based on the childrens’ designs, KaBOOM had three beautiful playgrounds designed for us. After polling the parents and children at Family Re-Entry, a clear winner emerged: The playground includes a spiral slide, monkey bars, activity panels and ladders. In addition, a number of side…
Designing a dream playground!
Kool-Aid and organizers from KaBOOM! hosted a Design Day for children and families at Odyssey House to begin planning a brand new playground for Family Re-Entry. The children and their parents put crayon to paper to brainstorm and draw their dream…