According to Coach Amber, an AmeriCorps member and Playworks program coordinator at the Lee Academy Pilot School in Dorchester, "every day is a...
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The Power of Play
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From The Field
Playworks served with Habitat For Humanity on the National Day of Service to help repaint houses and build a fence around an East Oakland low-...
KNBC TV Los Angeles
06/08/2010
Playworks is a Bay Area-based school program that actively engages kids on the pavement, grass and hardwood of low-income schools throughout the country.
It wasn't until 2009 that it debuted in the Los Angeles area. With a dozens schools already on board, parents may be excited to implement the program in their own kids' schools.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is helping to expand Playworks in Los Angeles County. It's a way for kids who have never had structured extra-curricular activity experience to learn how to play positively.
