Nature's Playground Brings Preschools to Park | |
Our Picnics in the Park started this month! | |
Growing Up Boulder connected with local preschools, New Horizons Cooperative Preschool and Boulder Journey School, to invite their communities to meet at the park and engage in nature play.
The park at Violet Avenue is one of the many parks City of Boulder is remodeling and activating. It will become a neighborhood park that is unique, inviting, and accessible to all ages, cultures, and people. It is located near the North Boulder Branch Library that will be open in June and the Boulder Meadows and Ponderosa manufactured home communities.
Growing Up Boulder is participating in this project by programming activities that gather the community and promote nature play with children ages 3 to 5. The activities include exploring the creek, painting rocks, making fairy and gnome houses, and playing in the mud kitchen. The observations and discussions Growing Up Boulder has with children, caregivers, and teachers, will then be shared with City as community input for the park's design.
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CFCI: We’ve heard from 900 people!
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As part of the process towards making Boulder a UNICEF Child Friendly City, Growing Up Boulder engaged with 900 children, teens, parents/caregivers and service providers in 33 "Community Conversations." These Community Conversations gathered opinions from the community about the current state of children and youth in Boulder. More than 70% of participants were from underserved communities.
Participants were asked about their experiences in 5 goal areas: safety and inclusion, children’s participation, equitable social services, safe living environments, and play and leisure. In addition to Community Conversations, Growing Up Boulder and city staff have created a dashboard of quantitative data from government/public sources, such as the census, school district, and the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey. Young people and their adult allies will work to share both the qualitative and quantitative data back out to the community over the next few months. Next, they will invite even more teens to join "Intergenerational Workshops" to select priority areas for change and to create a Youth Action Plan. This plan will eventually be adopted by the City of Boulder. Stay tuned for teen participation opportunities this summer and fall!
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Growing Up Boulder's Vision and Mission | |
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