Provider Portrait: Horizons for Homeless Children
Learn strategies to promote healing through play in shelter settings and beyond!
Boston, MA
In this short, documentary-style portrait, you’ll meet staff and volunteers from Horizons for Homeless Children (HHC). Working with shelters throughout Massachusetts, HHC creates trauma-informed play spaces and trains volunteers to help children thrive and grow. Learn strategies to promote healing through play in shelter settings and beyond! Special thanks to Horizons for Homeless Children, Evelyn House, Father Bill’s & MainSpring, Kate Barrand, Meghan Schafer, Lynne Gaines, Anasia Fernandes and Deanna Dwyer.
Ideas Into Action: Sharing Comfort Strategies with Children
You can show children how others use strategies for self-soothing.
Provider Workshop: Healthy Goodbyes
In the face of these challenges, you can model healthy goodbyes.
Promoting Healing Through Play in Shelters part 2
It’s not just the things you put into an environment that are important—a play space is made even more effective when adults interact with children in positive ways.
Hooray for Hands
Hands remind us of the power of helping, sharing, and caring.
Talk About It: For Children Experiencing Homelessness
Honest, age-appropriate ways to respond to children’s difficult questions.
Ideas Into Action: Grown-Ups Come Back
A bag of ribbons can go a long way!
Provider Workshop: Healthy Goodbyes Resources part 2
In the face of these challenges, you can model healthy goodbyes.
