Playworks Louisiana

Playworks Louisiana Playworks’ vision is that one day, every child in America will have access to safe, healthy play every day.

Research shows that play is essential to children's healthy physical, cognitive, and social development, an invaluable school improvement tool, and important part of ensuring positive interaction within diverse communities. Quality recess and playtime also helps children return to the classroom more focused and ready to learn. Playworks is the only nonprofit organization in the country to send tra

ined, full-time program coordinators, "coaches", to under-served urban public schools, where they transform recess and play into a positive experience that helps kids and teachers get the most out of every learning opportunity throughout the school day. The coaches become part of the school community, working full-time to provide organized play and physical activity through the five components of the Playworks program. They organize games and activities during recess, provide individual class game times and develop junior coaches through a leadership development program during school hours. Outside of the school day, our coaches also run tutoring and physical activity programs as well as several developmental sports leagues.

07/08/2020

Playworks is so proud of the work that we’ve been doing to help a generation of kids, ensuring every child feels included, is active, and builds valuable social and emotional skills through play. Like many nonprofits, we’ve had to adjust to the new reality caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This means we had to make tough decisions to ensure we can be there for kids for years to come.

Due to financial uncertainty, we had to reduce our Playworks team, including staff and AmeriCorps members, impacting every community we serve. As a result, our Louisiana office has closed.

Our commitment is to continue offering services in this community moving forward. Schools in our community can access Playworks PRO (professional training services), PlayworksU (online training), and other online tools in the 2020-2021 school year.

We encourage you to follow our National Playworks account for future updates as this account will be inactive.

We appreciate your ongoing support and look forward to playing with you again soon.

We want to enable kids to still experience play so here are 6 Brain Games kids can play at home to keep them engaged and...
06/05/2020

We want to enable kids to still experience play so here are 6 Brain Games kids can play at home to keep them engaged and learning!

It’s important to keep kids learning, and there are many ways to integrate learning into playtime. Find Brain Games you can play at home with kids to keep them engaged and learning.

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650 Poydras Street Suite 2242
New Orleans, LA
70130

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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