Kids Want a Playground
A fundraiser for A Better Chance for Our Children
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$150 goal
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I’m Pam Starling.
I’m fundraising for A Better Chance for Our Children.
THE EFFECTS OF PLAY ON THE BRAIN
Climbing, swinging, and hard landings (like when you reach the bottom of a slide and your feet hit the ground) are good sources of proprioceptive input. Kids who participate in proprioceptive activities tend to have better self-regulation and lower anxiety levels. This is because engaging in these activities helps children improve their cognitive skills, sensory processing, and emotional awareness.
Play helps children affected by trauma by:
● Helping them learning social-emotional skills
● Developing an awareness of body sensations
● Naming, managing, and expressing emotions
● Strengthening problem-solving skills
● Making friends
CHANGE LIVES! Be a Part of Our Movement!
Your donation goes beyond building a playground—you are building resilience in young minds and bodies, promoting healing from unimaginable trauma, and providing a chance for youth to reach their full potential.
Climbing, swinging, and hard landings (like when you reach the bottom of a slide and your feet hit the ground) are good sources of proprioceptive input. Kids who participate in proprioceptive activities tend to have better self-regulation and lower anxiety levels. This is because engaging in these activities helps children improve their cognitive skills, sensory processing, and emotional awareness.
Play helps children affected by trauma by:
● Helping them learning social-emotional skills
● Developing an awareness of body sensations
● Naming, managing, and expressing emotions
● Strengthening problem-solving skills
● Making friends
CHANGE LIVES! Be a Part of Our Movement!
Your donation goes beyond building a playground—you are building resilience in young minds and bodies, promoting healing from unimaginable trauma, and providing a chance for youth to reach their full potential.
About A Better Chance for Our Children
Mission: We find safe, loving, permanent families for children in foster care. Our children have experienced significant trauma, abuse, and neglect that has impacted their brain development. Because they are unable to regulate their behavior, both the children and their caregivers need the specific training/support that we offer for life, at no cost to them. Without these supports, our children are at a higher risk for failed adoptions, trafficking, addiction, houselessness, abuse, and incarceration.
