Let Character Be Your Silver Lining
Image source Dear Friends, I was on the phone earlier today talking with one of my staff members when my daughter taps my hand and mouths quietly that Dorito, her hedgehog, needs a bath as he’s gotten “something gross” on his paws and now it’s all over her blanket....
Kids Empowered to Help the Hungry
Inside Out Club DuPage is on a mission to develop kids with character inside and out; children living by values founded in acceptance, curiosity, collaboration, empathy, gratitude, kindness, perseverance and self-awareness who have a desire to help others, the...
Grateful Kids Show Love to Soldiers and Learn Self-Awareness
This winter, over 650 elementary-age kids in the Inside Out Club (IOC) school program at eighteen schools took part in our Supporting Our Troops lesson. This lesson taught the kids self-awareness and gratitude through a two main activities – 1. IOC volunteers...
669 Kids Learn Empathy by Helping the Homeless
Have you ever taken the time to think about how it would feel and look like to be homeless? And then volunteered to help kids and families who are homeless? This is what 669 students in the Inside Out Club did this October. As part of our “Homelessness in Our...
Inside Out Club Kids Helping Children in Haiti
Take a look at how Inside Out Club kids made an impact globally & worked on building a sense of social responsibility. Helping Globally was the name of one of our spring Inside Out Club lessons, and it taught the students curiosity and empathy through fun...
What does #LiveInsideOut mean?
We are working to build a generation of children and families that strive to “live inside out”. What does that mean? We focus on helping kids develop the character skills (i.e. social and emotional skills) necessary to thrive in their lives, schools, and later in jobs and community, which is the “inside piece”. The “outside” part is being connected to the community through volunteerism. All of our programs combine these two elements!
5 Opportunities to Get Involved
Inside Out Club DuPage offers an after-school program, weekend program, and online (Inside Out Club Live). Additionally, IOCD provides parents and educators with two online resources to help them build character and volunteer from home.
Working with teachers, volunteers, parents, school administrators and outside organizations, the Inside Out Club is positively impacting more than 3,000 children and their families each year.