Louisville Parks and Recreation 2018 Program Guide Whats In Play | Page 5

Get Healthy and Go Outside With
Jefferson Memorial Forest!
CYRIL ALLGEIER/
SUN VALLEY
COMMUNITY CENTERS
Mon, 6-7:30 p.m.
October 8 • Archery
October 22 • Rock Climbing
PARKHILL/
CALIFORNIA
COMMUNITY CENTERS
Mon, 6-7:30 p.m.
October 15 • Archery
October 29 • Rock Climbing
ECHO O.S.T. (Out
of School Time)
Schedule
AMERICANA WORLD
COMMUNITY CENTER
4801 Southside Dr
502/366-7813
Tue, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
October 9 • Hiking
October 23 • Archery
Nov 6 • Rock Climbing
BEECHMONT/
SOUTH LOUISVILLE
COMMUNITY CENTERS
Tue, 6-7:30 p.m.
October 16 • Archery
October 30 • Rock Climbing
CABBAGE PATCH
SETTLEMENT HOUSE
1413 South Sixth St
502/634-0811
Wed, 4:30-6 p.m.
October 10 • Survival Skills
October 19 • Archery
Nov 9 • Rock Climbing
PORTLAND/
BAXTER
COMMUNITY CENTERS
Wed, 6-7:30 p.m.
October 17 • Archery
November 7 • Rock Climbing
USPIRITUS
3121 Brooklawn Campus Dr
502/451-5177
Thu, 6-7:30 p.m.
October 11 • Hiking
October 25 • Archery
Nov 8 • Rock Climbing
SHAWNEE/
SOUTHWICK
COMMUNITY CENTERS
Thu, 6-7:30 p.m.
October 18 • Archery
Nov 1 • Rock Climbing
STEAM EXCHANGE
714 South Clay St
Fri, 4:45-6:30 p.m.
October 12 • Hiking
October 26 • Archery
Nov 2 • Rock Climbing
Louisville ECHO (Lou-
isville is Engaging
CHildren Outdoors).
ECHO is a grant-fund-
ed outdoor educa-
tion and recreation
initiative managed by
Jefferson Memorial
Forest and the Natu-
ral Areas Division of
Louisville Parks and
Recreation. Its focus is
on improving access
to the outdoors for
Louisville youth and
families. Louisville
ECHO also includes
public events where
a variety of free
outdoor activities are offered, such as the annual Canoemobile -
offered on the Ohio River - and West Louisville Appreciation Days.
Louisville ECHO has four components: school-based outdoor
experiential learning; out-of-school time recreation; an outdoor
job-training and employment component; annual community
events.
In 2008, Louisville Parks was one of sixteen recipients of a na-
tionwide grant from the U.S. Forest Service for their “More Kids
in the Woods” program, which provides seed money to develop
programs connecting children to nature. Since Louisville ECHO’s
inception, the education component has provided over 3,000
lower-income youth with many outdoor experiences.
Presently, Louisville ECHO’s education component partners with
fourth-grade students from King, Portland, Young, Coleridge-Tay-
lor Montessori, Coral Ridge, and Chenoweth elementary schools.
Component activities are tied to Next Generation Science Stan-
dards to enhance each school’s science curriculums.
This summer, Louisville ECHO offered day camps that allowed
children from partner organizations to explore even more outdoor
activities such as canoeing, biking and spelunking. With support
from Mayor Fischer’s SummerWorks, Louisville ECHO also provided
training to young adults in environmental education and recre-
ation programming. Those youth will go on to assist Louisville
ECHO’s out-of-school time (OST) component and serve as mentors
in target neighborhoods.
Louisville ECHO has added a new mobile nature play unit to bring
nature play into the city’s urban parks this fall and winter.
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