What We Offer
Supportive Youth Enrichment
We have been using art and creative expression to support kids and youth throughout the nation for over 10 years.
Creative expression can help young people express their complex emotions, navigate pressure, and work through difficult experiences.
Our program is designed to support social-emotional learning development in young people. It is intended to be used in classrooms and small to mid-size groups, seamlessly implementing before, during, and after school hours—or as a supplemental tool in existing interventions.
How Paint It Out Empowers Students
Name & Manage Big Emotions
Gives students a visual language to identify, label, and safely externalize complex emotional triggers.
Navigate Tough Barriers
Equips kids with somatic, tactile tools to build resilience during academic stress or school changes.
Explore Free Expression
Provides a non-judgmental space free of strict "right vs. wrong" academic constraints.
Develop Healthy Coping
Replaces screen-time hyper-fixation with active, physical grounding techniques they can do anywhere.
Build a Growth Mindset
Teaches kids to view structural "mistakes" on the canvas as portals for expansion and learning.
K-12 Developmental Curriculum
Select a student demographic grade group below to see how our non-verbal visual tools adjust for age-appropriate social emotional alignment.
"The Weather Inside Me"
Using soft tactile fingertip-blending of vibrant wash colors to represent internal physical feelings. Avoids complex logic requirements, giving younger students a safe, tangible way to communicate emotional states.
"Paint It Out directly complements core SEL curricula like CASEL and Second Step. It transforms abstract instructional worksheets into a fully tactile space where children can look inside and process their feelings."
School administrators and principals face rising behavioral disruptions and declining mental stamina. Paint It Out serves as an ideal non-verbal **Tier-2 intervention tool**, giving educators a safe way to de-escalate crisis cycles, improve classroom focus, and build natural emotional self-regulation boundaries without clinical friction.
In Schools & Programs
"Painting It Out is such a wonderful program in a pathway for our youth to express their emotions and feelings when they don't want to verbalize what they're feeling and thinking. I would recommend any and every youth service organization or School in Hamilton county to invest in this program, it gives our youth an opportunity to truly express and communicate what they are feeling in a safe comfortable way.
"Paint it Out brought a warm, engaging presence that encouraged students to think critically about their surroundings, interpret their ideas, and take ownership of what they were creating."
Custom Courses
We customize our curriculum for your school, YMCA facility, or youth network. From multi-week classroom integration courses to professional development sessions for teachers and staff, we align the materials, objectives, and structures to serve your community's specific demographic.
- Full physical student art kit shipments
- Alignment mapped directly to CASEL criteria
- Custom staff professional training
- Adaptive Tier-2 emotional intervention support