Leave No Child Inside Summit ’08 Notes: Beyond SLE: Creating unstructured play *after* the formative years
October 30, 2008Leave No Child Inside Summit ’08 Notes: Starting an LNCI in Northwest Ohio
October 30, 2008Play Teams for Everyone
Group:
Heather Starck – Audubon
Susan Jervey – Naturalist, Licking County Parks
Essences/Main Ideas
“Play Team”
How we can all work together to get play teams started
How we can use the “institutions” already in place to implement the play team idea
Have a few groups start teams and show success
Next steps for small group:
Pilot some nature play teams
Advocacy campaign – inspire after school clubs, rec centers, etc. to create play teams
Festivals – Work together to create nature play areas at festivals to inspire parents and groups to create play teams
Recommendations to Steering Committee:
Help us keep the conversation going
Identify/help groups collaborate to get nature play areas at festivals