The St. Nicholas Ministry was created to provide resources for families and parishes to aid them in their walk along side faithful with disabilities and in-particular our youth.   

If you or your parish have need of a particular resource, please contact us to aid you in creating items that are specific to your needs.  You may contact us at uocyouth@aol.com

Служіння Св. Миколая було створено для надання ресурсів сім'ям та парафіям, щоб допомогти їм у праці з вірними з  інвалідністю та, зокрема, з нашою молоддю.

Якщо вам або вашій парафії потрібні певні ресурси, будь ласка, зв'яжіться з нами, щоб ми могли допомогти вам у підготовці усього необхідного, що відповідатиме вашим потребам. Ви можете зв'язатися з нами за адресою uocyouth@aol.com 

Supporting our Youth with Unique Needs

This guide was developed to aid parishes in their ministry to work with families and faithful to live a full and active life as members of Christ's church.  We are always looking to improve our resources. If you have any suggestions for updates to the guide, please contact our office at uocyouth@aol.com.

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Unique Needs Information Form

In addition to our guide, there are wonderful resources for creating full parish ministry from Joni&Friends.

Підтримка нашої Молоді з Особливими Потребами

Цей посібник був розроблений щоб допомогти нашим парафіям у їхньому служінні для праці з сім'ями та вірними, щоб жити повноцінне та активне життя як член Христової Церкви. Ми завжди намагаємось покращити наші ресерси. Якщо у Вас є якісь пропозиції щодо посібника, будь ласка зв'яжіться з нашим офісом за адресою uocyouth@aol.com.

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In addition to our guide, there are wonderful resources for creating full parish ministry from Joni&Friends.
В додаток до нашого посібника, є ще чудові ресурси для створення повноцінного служіння парафії від Joni&Friends.

Social Stories are learning tools to aid youth with specific social situations they may encounter. They may describe an action, concept, event, or situation.  They may be of a general nature or constructed for the specific need(s) of a young person.  

We will be adding social stories to our catalog on an on-going basis.  All of our social stories are customizable upon request.  We can add pictures/photos of your child, parish, etc into the already constructed stories.  If you have a specific need, we may write a story with your input.  

Two versions of each story are provided. The first version provided is formatted with several concepts or points per page.  The second version is formatted with one main/single point highlighted per page.

We have a team of professionals who have experience with writing social stories working on this project. Please contact if you have a special request or need to have something customized. Please contact us at uocyouth@aol.com

Visual (Picture) Schedules

Visual or picture schedules are a resource usually used to aid an individual in visually working step-by-step through an action (set of actions), event(s), or their day. These schedules may help youth manage and understand common actions and routines in their daily life. Pictures or pictures combined with simple word descrition, are used as tiles in the schedule.  They may be used in a combination of ways. 

Uses for visual schedules in parish life are further discussed in the guide provided above - Supporting our Youth with Unique Needs.

Here are some links to examples of visual/picture schedule uses.

Sample 1 - ABC Pediatrics

Sample 2 - Creative Connected Parenting

Sample 3 - Especially Education

Our picture tiles are organized by cateogry to help you locate the tiles most needed for your schedule. Our office is able to customize tiles for your child.  You may want to provide us with photos of your child, your parish, your priest, etc.  To request customized tiles, please contact our office at uocyouth@aol.com

You may find some ready made visual schedules from Summer Kineard at her website Making Faith Accessible

Icons used in the pictures tiles are courtesy of Archangel Icons.

Sensory Activity Charts

This resource was created to help youth focus on what is going on around them during divine serivces.  They are intended to be used in one of the following ways:

• Place in a plastic slip sheet or laminated to be used with dry erase markers
• Using stickers or markers/crayons to fill in the boxes
• Placing numbers in the boxes for the number of times they see that item or action

We will be adding charts periodically. 

Charts for download

• Divine Liturgy page 1  Page 2     БОЖЕСТВЕННА ЛІТУРГІЯ p2
• PreSanctified Liturgy 1   Page 2    Presanctified 1 UKR  Page 2 UKR
• Great & Holy Wednesday      Страсна Середа
• Great & Holy Friday       велика та страсна п’ятниця
• Pascha       ПАСХА