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Family Play to Promote Well-being

Promoting well-being involves understanding and addressing child, youth, and caregiver functioning in physical, behavioral, social, and cognitive areas. This act can look like empowering families with the confidence and skills to create warm, welcoming, and inclusive family structures that can overcome small everyday obstacles as well as large monumental obstacles.

When families play together it helps them build bonds, understand the family structure more, and help reduce individual stress. However, families in urban areas face barriers to outdoor spaces and recreation. Click through this website to learn more about family play, the benefits, and some of the barriers and implications of family play.