Providing truly inclusive programs requires learning and planning. The PlayGarden offers workshops and professional development opportunities, including site-specific training designed to help parents advocate for their children and for organizations to say, “Yes!” to children, youth and adults with disabilities.
Date: Friday February 17th
Time: 8:30am-12:30pm
Location: In Person, at the Seattle PlayGarden 1745 24th Ave S. Seattle, WA 98144
How to examine our personal and professional attitudes, beliefs and practices that can often lead toward exclusion of children and youth with disabilities in youth programming.
How to identify and break down common barriers to inclusion.
Shift registration & enrollment, marketing and communication practices to be more inclusive.
How to partner with parents, caregivers and aids to help an individual child.
Guidance on inclusive staff training practices and how to build an inclusive organizational culture.
How to provide respectful age-appropriate support to children with all types of disabilities including physical, cognitive, intellectual, behavioral and social emotional related disabilities.
Workshop Details:
Cost: The workshops cost $20. If this is out of reach for you, please send us an email at Hannah@seattleplaygarden.org, we will make you you are able to attend.
Audience: Workshops are designed specifically for programs that offer summer camp programming. Youth-care providers at all levels within an organization and community members eager to learn more are invited to attend.
Facilitation: Workshops are lead and facilitated by the Seattle Children’s PlayGarden’s Executive Director and Founder, Liz Bullard and Inclusive Programs Director, Hannah Gallagher. To learn more about the facilitators, please visit the PlayGarden’s Staff and Board.
In Person or Virtual? Workshops will be held in person at the Seattle PlayGarden, 1745 24th Ave. S. Seattle, WA 98144
Accessibility: If you need any accommodations to make this online workshop more accessible, please reach out to Hannah@seattleplaygarden.org to arrange accommodations. We will do our very best to make the programming as accessible as possible.
We are so excited to share that the Seattle Children’s Theater (SCT) reached out to us and asked for inclusion training for ALL of their staff. Way to go SCT! SCT has also sent some of their Teaching Artist staff to the PlayGarden to lead Story Drama sessions with our preschoolers. Our teachers learned so much and our kids had so much fun!
We are so excited for this ongoing partnership and to know the SCT is committed to being a place of inclusion and acceptance for ALL children, youth and families in our community.
Want to be an inclusion champion like SCT?
Has your workplace, social network you are a part of or Board of Directors you serve on expressed interest in increasing its efforts toward greater diversity, equity and inclusion?
In 2022 you can be a catalyst for change and be the person who helps move from talking about DEI to taking action.
The PlayGarden is now offering Site-specific inclusion training for youth-serving organizations in the community.
For more information on the types of training we can offer your organization and our fee structure please see our
