In communities all across America, many students feel unsafe, excluded, and disengaged on the playground. Every kid deserves the opportunity for safe and healthy play – every day.  

When children have opportunities to learn conflict resolution skills, feel included, be active, and practice leadership on the playground, they go back to class focused and ready to learn. 

Playworks develops these skills through play every day. 

Now imagine those playful children all grown up. Students with strong social and emotional skills in elementary school are twice as likely to graduate from college and 46% more likely to have a full time job by age 25 than their peers.   

Over the past 20 years, Playworks has been leveraging the power of safe, healthy play to help children build skills for success in school and in life. We are the largest national organization using play to transform school culture and bring out the best in every kid, reaching 1,300 schools across the country, and right here in Southern California, our AIM is to reach 500,000 kids in 800 elementary schools with safe and healthy play by December 2020. Play is safe and healthy when kids feel physically and emotionally safe, are engaged and active, and are empowered to lead and resolve their own conflicts. 

Through the Power of Play, our goal is to increase student engagement, daily physical activity and enable social-emotional learning across Southern Californian playgrounds. 

Funds raised will help ensure 92,000 kids in 157 elementary schools in the 2017-2018 school year learn vital social/emotional skills to succeed in school and in life.   

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