We are fundraising to bring the healing power of play to kids!

Just Play Project creates time and space for the child's right to play. JPP is a model program of Alliance for Childhood - operating locally in Ithaca, New York and has offered free play opportunities to over 1,200 children (during school, afterschool, and summertime). JPP programs have all been free - at no cost to families and children participating.

Just Play Project is creating jobs, providing no cost childcare (especially for low-income, black, and latinx children), and providing free play opportunities to children - to help them heal and process the pandemic.

Help Just Play Project bring free play opportunities to children all year long!

 

MISSION:

Just Play Project creates time + space for the child’s right to play.

community by community Just Play Project trains and employs playworkers, empowers youth participation in the planning + design of public places, and enables cross-sector collaborations to create policies for the provision of play.

PEOPLE.

PEOPLE.

Playworkers

People.

Playworkers support children to create their own spaces and opportunities for play. Through extensive training playworkers become the people who make play happen. The project sees playworkers as a transformative force in the work to ensure all children have the right to play.

PLACES.

PLACES.

participation in places

Places. 

Empowering youth voice in decisions affecting their lives is central to the project. As 'animators' of youth's potential, we develop structures for youth organizing + support youth to change their public places and improve the communities in which we all live.

POLICIES.

POLICIES.

Policies for play

Policies. 

Communities provide policies for children regarding education and work - but not play. Working with local governments, community organizations, and advocacy groups - the project hopes to create policies for the provision of play at the local, state, and national levels.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) International Treaty

ARTICLE 31

“THAT EVERY CHILD HAS THE RIGHT TO REST AND LEISURE, TO ENGAGE IN PLAY AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES APPROPRIATE TO THE AGE OF THE CHILD AND TO PARTICIPATE FREELY IN CULTURAL LIFE AND THE ARTS.”

THE CRC IS THE MOST WIDELY RATIFIED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY - PROTECTING AND RESPECTING THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN WORLDWIDE. SINCE 1989, 195 OF 196 STATE-PARTIES HAVE RATIFIED THE CRC...LEAVING THE UNITED STATES AS THE SOLE COUNTRY NOT TO RATIFY THE CRC.