Program Details
Free to Play is Psi-Giansanti Inc.’s After-School Care Program. This program is dedicated to promoting and teaching social-emotional learning techniques via the RUMERTIME Process that was created by GCSCORED. The target audience is 9-14 year olds who live in low-income areas that face many issues. This program focuses on children and young teens who suffer from emotional distress (ie, stress, anxiety, depression, aggression, PTSD) in hopes of teaching safe and healthy coping strategies. The program will work with GCSCORED to address children and teens, along with the LOL House that will address parents.
Activities
Students are free to engage in a variety of activities.
Some of those activities include:
- Listening to podcasts while an activity (such as taking notes, drawing, coloring, laying down)
- Create and act out plays
- Make “Learning Menus” of different activities so students can choose what they do as a group
- Learn about social emotional learning
- Stretch and meditate as a group
- Keep personal journals to write down their thoughts and feelings after completing group or individual activities
- Do arts and crafts
- Play “Team Architect” to practice social skills and team building
- Plant seeds in recycled cartons
- Meal planning for group cooking sessions
- Engage in group discussions about what they learned and how they feel about topics that were addressed that day
Hours of Operation
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Saturdays and Sundays
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Locations
Hollywood Office:
Doral Office: