Creating policies for the provision of play in public spaces.

 

Playworkers are the transformative people behind this project. Youth participation in the environmental design of public places for play is powerful. And local, state, and federal policies send a message that this work is valued + can influence population-level change. Policies for Play are needed in the US + we're getting started here in Ithaca, New York.

Ithaca’s Mayor Svante Myrick proclaimed the City of Ithaca to be a “Free Range Kid City”

 
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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.