Upcoming Webinar: Prioritization of Play

We’re hosting a Prioritization of Play webinar via Zoom with Whitney Blaisdell and you’re invited! 🖥️
Play matters. The work that recreational professionals do protects human health, happiness, and rights.
Join this webinar where Whitney will outline research supporting an urgent need for prioritization of play in communities, followed by a set of concrete recommendations to increase play through spatial design and community activation.
This webinar offers space to challenge anti-play culture, and to explore and troubleshoot common barriers in recreation-related work.
✨ Topic: Prioritization of Play
✨ Date: Monday, May 30, 2022
✨ Time: 12:00PM – 1:00PM
✨ Link: Register here!
Contact us with any questions.

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About Whitney —
Whitney Blaisdell is a prize-winning PhD student at the University of Regina with a research focus on play and community. Her master’s thesis (Re)claiming Play: An Individual and Community Movement Towards Playfulness was found meritorious for nomination of the Distinguished President’s Graduate Student Award.
Whitney has over 10 years of experience working in the community-based sector with children and families, was formerly a Regina Public Schools teacher, and founded the non-profit organization Project Play YQR around her research. Whitney currently serves as Co-Chair of the Regina and Area Early Childhood Network and is an active member of the Canadian Association for Young Children.

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