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Horizons for Homeless Children founded the Playspace Programs in 1990. To make healthy play possible for children living in shelters, we collaborate with shelter residents and staff to design and build age-appropriate, "kid-friendly" spaces that come equipped with libraries, building blocks, art supplies and more - the all-important tools to challenge children physically and creatively and allow them to have a place to play, use their imaginations and be just who they are…kids. The program recruits, trains, and places volunteers in the shelter Playspaces to supervise and engage the children in fun, educational play so that they can grow and develop, as all children should.
More than 1,400 trained volunteers known as Playspace Activity Leaders (PALs) participate in educational play activities with children each week in approximately 140 family shelters in Massachusetts. To date, Horizons for Homeless Children has trained more than 14,000 members of the community to become PALs. As part of its current three-year expansion plan, Horizons for Homeless Children has opened regional offices in Central, Northeastern, Western and Southeastern Massachusetts and all recruit and train community members to volunteer in the shelter-based Playspaces.
Horizons for Homeless Children is touching the lives of more than 2,200 children each week in Massachusetts through the Playspace Programs.
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