Playground Supervision Serious accidents which occur in schools typically happen on the playground and often  playground supervision is a contributing factor.  In fact, approximately 200,000 accidents each year send children to the emergency room for treatment of an injury which occurred on the school playground. The following tips  are designed to increase the quality of the playground supervision in your school  insuring that children ar…

Only a few days left to sign up for the Peaceful Playgrounds Training for Trainers Workshop at University of North Carolina Asheville on July 31.

Link to workshop registration

KaBoom is offering selected community groups an $8,500 grant to go towards the purchase of playground equipment.   Some of the requirements of the grant are that a community leader recruit 75-100 volunteers to assist with the playground build. More information is available at: http://kaboom.org/build_playground/build_it_kaboom_playground_grant