School Playgrounds
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HI. I’m Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer, President and Founder of Peaceful Playgrounds.

I’m here today to talk to you about why I invented the  Peaceful Playgrounds Program.

When I was an elementary school principal I had a long line of students outside my door each day. So I set out to determine what goes wrong on the typical school playground and then to put solutions into place. We identified 5 problems and put 5 solutions to th…
Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Program


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Safeway Foundation

The goals of this funding are to empower innovative programs to expand and enhance services, increase capacity, and/or incorporate new strategies to support healthy body weights among children and adolescents; evaluate the impact of existing programs; and identify promising approaches that could be replicated, adapted, and implemented in diverse communities nationwide. The program seeks to fund nonprofit organization…
NATIONWIDE INSTANT RECESS®

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Peaceful Playgrounds along with many other movement and physical activity advocates will participate in a GET UP AND MOVE! event tomorrow Tue, May…