Speak Out at a Town Hall Meeting, Civic Organization Meeting, or PTA Meeting

These organizations are always seeking guest speakers, relevant and pressing topics, and interesting presentations. Your presentation doesn’t need to be long—just powerful and sincere, the rest will follow. You have been working toward opportunities like this since the beginning. You are now ready! Bring a fellow play committee member—and some children if it’s an appropriate setting—and share the message that ALL children need play for their healthy social, physical, and cognitive development. And, remember, always end with a powerful and specific request for action. Then follow up, follow up, and follow up.

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"The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
– Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, 1875–1961