A 2021 Grant for Brighter Futures

The goal of this project is to align with Warren County Public Schools policy (IC‐ID) to provide elementary school students with a daily recess where students can benefit from the positive mental and physical outcomes associated with play. Students at Brighter Futures could benefit from the mental and physical outcomes associated with play. Recess offers opportunities for children to learn and enhance communication skills, negotiation, cooperation, sharing, problem solving, perseverance, self‐control, and conflict resolution according to a Stanford University study. These are skills that the non‐traditional elementary students need to develop to be successfully academically and behaviorally. In addition, students would enjoy the opportunity to exert energy in a healthy way.