Play Project Overview

 

What We’re All About

The Vivo Play Project is a four-year social innovation and community lab working collaboratively with our community to find unique, effective, and long-lasting solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing our communities. A primary focus of the Play Project is to introduce families to unstructured play, educate them on its value, and ultimately increase participation in loose parts play to help create healthier generations.

Results to Date

The Play Project is a cornerstone of VIVO’s mission to help the community raise healthier generations. We are very proud of the results to date, and through our partnership with the University of Calgary, we are committed to continue our research on play.

A number of ways we’ve brought play to life:

Play Hub and Play Kit Participants

To-date 12,616
Goal 11,000

Play Ambassadors
Trained

To-date 367
Goal 300

Sharing Our Work
With Others

To-date 20
Goal 15

Play Hubs
Activated

To-date 7
Goal 6
 

North Central Calgary Communities
Leading Play

To-date 4
Goal 3
 

People Connecting More in
North Central Calgary

To-date Results coming in 2022
Goal 10%

Play Scientist
Participants

To-date 318
Goal 230
 

Peer & Non-Peer
Reviewed Ariticles

To-date 10
Goal 6
 

People Moving More in
North Central Calgary

To-date Results coming in 2022
Goal 10%
 

Research findings from the Play Project have been published in three peer-reviewed papers, presented at eight conferences, and our Play Ambassador Toolkit has been shared with 15 organizations.

To learn more about our community’s attitudes toward play, physical activity, and social connections, download our Community Survey Report.