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Volunteer for a Playworks Community Cleanup and Games Event in San Jose!
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Playworks is a national non-profit serving 22 different regions across the United States. Our mission is to introduce respectful, inclusive, and healthy play to elementary school playgrounds, with the goal of empowering students to make new friends, settle conflicts on their own, and use their energy productively so they can transition back to class focused and ready to learn. Playworks provides each of our partner schools with a full-time coach, who is responsible for implementing our program throughout the school year. In the Spring, our AmeriCorps Coaches plan a Community Engagement Initiative designed to address a need in their school community, such as increasing parent engagement, promoting physical fitness, or painting lines on the playground.
Our AmeriCorps Coach serving Edenvale Elementary in East San Jose grew up in the same community as his students and their families, and recognizes the need to create a safer, cleaner environment for kids who walk to and from school, and play on the playground before and after school. Coach Crispin is hoping to bring the community together for an afternoon of picking up trash on the school grounds and surrounding neighborhoods, and will conclude the event with game stations and a raffle. Volunteers will help with set up and clean up, participant and volunteer sign up, distributing raffle tickets, water bottles, snacks, and equipment for trash pick up, lead groups to specific areas for trash pickup, and help start and end games.
This event is designed to be a fun and healing opportunity for community members in East San Jose to beautify the school neighborhood, and is the perfect volunteer opportunity for service-minded and playful individuals.
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About Playworks
Location:
380 Washington Street, Oakland, CA 94607, US
Mission Statement
To improve the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play.
Description
Playworks is the leading national nonprofit leveraging the power of play to transform children’s physical and emotional health. At Playworks we believe in the power of play to bring out the best in every kid. We are changing school climate by leveraging the power of safe, fun, and healthy play at school every day.
We create a place for every kid on the playground to feel included, be active, and build valuable social and emotional skills. We partner with schools, districts, and after-school programs to provide a service or mix of services including on-site coaches, professional training for school staff who support recess, and consultative partnerships.
Playworks currently serves more than 1,200 schools in 23 regions across the United States and reaches more than 700,000 students directly and through professional training services
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
285 Azucar AveSan Jose, CA 95111
DATE POSTED
April 9, 2019
SKILLS
- Youth Services
- Habitat Restoration
- Spanish
- Relationship Building
- Coaching
- Outdoor Recreation
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 15
- Volunteers should be flexible and able to stay longer if additional cleanup time is required.
- Interested volunteers will be asked to register as a Playworks volunteer using an online form that automatically runs a background check.