Community Benefit funding enables Playworks to team up with Campbell Union School District to manage recess and playgrounds and encourage healthy, safe play.
Multiple studies have shown that organized recess is good for kids. Without that break in the academic day for play, children miss out on cognitive, social, emotional and physical benefits. Managing recess can be a challenge for teachers and administrators. Playworks has teamed up with schools nationwide to ensure that play stays safe, to prevent bullying and to help make sure all children have the opportunity to socialize and take part.
Through Community Benefit partnership, Playworks is using its evidence-based intervention to help Campbell Union School District encourage physical activity, foster social-emotional skills and support a positive school culture. Playworks coaches and staff provide:
- Recess safety and supervision: Playworks staff create a respectful, fun playground, ensuring all kids are included in recess and physical activity for 30-45 minutes every school day.
- Junior Coach Leadership Program: Playworks staff coordinate with teachers to recruit students from the upper grades to serve as Junior Coaches, supporting a peer-led recess. Youth leaders are trained in leadership skills, group management, conflict resolution techniques and bullying prevention strategies.
- Class game time: Playworks staff lead monthly classes offering support on conflict resolution strategies and game rules to build inclusivity, teamwork and cooperation.
- Staff orientation: Playworks offers professional development orientation at least once a year for all school staff.
- Increasing physical activity helps prevent diabetes and obesity, identified as a critical need in the Implementation Strategy Report and Community Benefit Plan.
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