Capable Kids Playground Project
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Goal – Capable Kids is working with a group of motivated parents to purchase and install high quality, handicap accessible, creative and inclusive playground equipment at Capable Kids’ current location in Toledo, Ohio.
Mission - Our mission at Capable Kids is to provide evidence-based behavior services to children with autism and other developmental disabilities. We accomplish this through teaching meaningful skills, along with providing training and support to families.
History - Heather Beam, Director and Board Certified Behavior Analyst, began working with children with autism and developmental disabilities and their families in 1995. Nine years later, Capable Kids was established and three employees were hired to provide home-based Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) sessions out of their suitcases. As the need increased, Capable Kids opened the first center in 2004 and added an ABA center based program. Capable Kids continued to grow and moved to the current location in Toledo, Ohio, in 2010.
Capable Kids strives to be a place where every child’s potential is cultivated through a positive learning environment and systematic teaching of meaningful skills, building upon each child’s strengths and motivation.
Need – Currently Capable Kids has a great lot adjacent to their building, but no playground equipment at all! It has been a dream of Heather’s to utilize this space to create a safe, functional, creative area for her students to explore, play, and learn. A recent Harvard Health Publishing stressed the importance of providing children with a few simple items crucial to improving their chance of future health and success – Sunshine, Exercise, Taking Risks, Socialization, Appreciation of Nature, and playing outdoors. Fulfilling Heather’s dream of creating a playground for the students will allow them the opportunity to obtain each of those critical components of learning!
The students at Capable Kids have a broad spectrum of impairments ranging from being in wheelchairs, wearing leg braces, having difficulty with their balance, and being unaware of safety norms, along with a collection of medical diagnosis’. Despite these constraints, we are fully committed to creating a space where the students can be “freed” momentarily of their disabilities and just feel like a child by engaging in play!
Financials – We have met with representatives from playground equipment and landscaping companies and discussed our available space and needs. We have determined that a playground that will best meet the students’ needs will cost approximately $90,000. This will be playground that will allow children with physical, mental, and sensory disabilities a chance to play outdoors like their peers at other schools.
Progress – Knowing the enormity of the task ahead, we are currently applying for playground grants and planning fundraising events in the Toledo area. Please see the attached link for our first event which will be May 8, 2019.
Mission - Our mission at Capable Kids is to provide evidence-based behavior services to children with autism and other developmental disabilities. We accomplish this through teaching meaningful skills, along with providing training and support to families.
History - Heather Beam, Director and Board Certified Behavior Analyst, began working with children with autism and developmental disabilities and their families in 1995. Nine years later, Capable Kids was established and three employees were hired to provide home-based Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) sessions out of their suitcases. As the need increased, Capable Kids opened the first center in 2004 and added an ABA center based program. Capable Kids continued to grow and moved to the current location in Toledo, Ohio, in 2010.
Capable Kids strives to be a place where every child’s potential is cultivated through a positive learning environment and systematic teaching of meaningful skills, building upon each child’s strengths and motivation.
Need – Currently Capable Kids has a great lot adjacent to their building, but no playground equipment at all! It has been a dream of Heather’s to utilize this space to create a safe, functional, creative area for her students to explore, play, and learn. A recent Harvard Health Publishing stressed the importance of providing children with a few simple items crucial to improving their chance of future health and success – Sunshine, Exercise, Taking Risks, Socialization, Appreciation of Nature, and playing outdoors. Fulfilling Heather’s dream of creating a playground for the students will allow them the opportunity to obtain each of those critical components of learning!
The students at Capable Kids have a broad spectrum of impairments ranging from being in wheelchairs, wearing leg braces, having difficulty with their balance, and being unaware of safety norms, along with a collection of medical diagnosis’. Despite these constraints, we are fully committed to creating a space where the students can be “freed” momentarily of their disabilities and just feel like a child by engaging in play!
Financials – We have met with representatives from playground equipment and landscaping companies and discussed our available space and needs. We have determined that a playground that will best meet the students’ needs will cost approximately $90,000. This will be playground that will allow children with physical, mental, and sensory disabilities a chance to play outdoors like their peers at other schools.
Progress – Knowing the enormity of the task ahead, we are currently applying for playground grants and planning fundraising events in the Toledo area. Please see the attached link for our first event which will be May 8, 2019.
Organizer
CK Parents
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Toledo, OH