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Building Playgrounds, Building Esteem! By: Samantha Furco A program dedicated to building special needs playgrounds in communities in New York for children who have disabilities. This program is designed to increase the children’s self esteem by giving them a playground (recreation & inclusion) to play on.

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Page 1: Building Playgrounds, Building Esteem! By: Samantha Furco A program dedicated to building special needs playgrounds in communities in New York for children

Building Playgrounds, Building Esteem!

By: Samantha Furco

A program dedicated to building special needs playgrounds in communities in New York for children who have disabilities. This program is designed to increase the children’s self esteem by giving them a playground (recreation & inclusion) to play on.

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Community Need Chart:

This chart shows us that 150,341 kids in New York State are disabled

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Community Need Chart Data:

Here, is the data I used to find I had a need.

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/population.html

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Logical Approach:Logical Approach Worksheet PROBLEM OR ISSUE RESOURCES ACTIVITIES OUTPUTS SHORT- TERM OUTCOMES LONG-TERM OUTCOMES IMPACTThe Community Need In order to accomplish In order to address our We expect that once We expect that if accomplished We expect that if accomplished We expect that if accomplishedThis is the problem we our set of activities we problem or asset we will accomplished these these activities these activities these activitiesare trying to solve will need the following: accomplish the following activities will produce will lead to the following will lead to the following will lead to the following

activities: the following evidence changes in 1–3 changes in 4–6 changes in 7–10 years:or service delivery: years: years:

In our community there is too much low self esteem in children with disabilities .The rate is currently 0.22. It would be much better to be closer to 0.12.This problem is a result of being excluded from activites in playgrounds . (Universal Playgrounds: Integrating All Children Through Play).

President , Vice President , Treasurer, Secretary, Volunteers, Program Advocates , Fundraising Staff , Playground Equiptment , Machinery , Computers & Supplies , , One main office, Post Office Space, Communities to build in .

children with disabilities will participate in Building playgrounds, Building Esteem, a program that builds playgrounds for children with disabilities

a monthly count of how many accessible playgrounds have been installed

The percent of kids being excluded from activites in playgrounds will be lower for those participating in the program as compared to those not participating.

The percent of low self esteem will be lower for those participating in the program as compared to those not participating.

The community problem of low self esteem in children with disabilities will decline from the current amount of 0.22 closer to the desired lower level of 0.12.

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1. Bhattacharya, et al. Evidence showed that not only does the school and home influence a

child’s self esteem, but his or her “play life” also has a major role. Showed that children with disabilities are slower to develop emotional

maturity because of the lack of places to play with peers.

2. Kodjebacheva Focused on 56 children with disabilities and studied them at a special

needs playground. Found that they had few opportunities for functional play and did not engage in group

social play, which ultimately lowered their self esteem.

3. Nosek Found that 22% of children with disabilities have low self esteem. Although this may seem low, its actually pretty high. This is higher than children who don’t have disabilities.

Literature Review:

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1. Bhattacharya, Sharika, Holly Cummings, Jordan Gilmore, Amanda Karr, Clint Lee , Jamie Olson, Jonathan Roberts, and Dora Syin. "Universal Playgrounds: Integrating All Children Through Play." Gemstone Universal Playgrounds Teams. (2003): 1-178. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. http://www.gemstone.umd.edu/teams/documents/playgrounds.pdf

2. Kodjebacheva, Gergana. "Shane's Inspiration: An Assessment of a Playground for Children Living with and without Disabilities." Children, Youth and Environments. 18.2 (2008): 219-235. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. http://www.jstor.org.library.lemoyne.edu/stable/pdfplus/10.7721/chilyoutenvi.18.2.0219.pdf?acceptTC=true&acceptTC=true&jpdConfirm=true

3. Nosek, Margaret. "National Study of Women with Physical Disabilities." Center for Research on Women with Disabilities. (1996): n. page. Web. 10 Apr. 2014. https://www.bcm.edu/research/centers/research-on-women-with-disabilities/?pmid=1408

Reference List:

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1. Evaluation Question: Are children with disabilities who have access to a playground more likely to have higher self esteem then before the playground was installed?

2. Evaluation Design: O X O

3. Evaluation Statistics: 1. Comparison of Means 2. T-test

Evaluation Plan:

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Evaluation Data:

A screenshot of the self esteem survey I found from Performwell.com. Respondents were asked ten questions. The lowest they could score was a 0, the highest they could score was a 30.

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Data Analysis

Sample

s T-Test

The chart above shows that after the program the child’s self esteem went up!

…BUT! Don’t be fooled, here we see the P-Value is only .797 meaning not a significant correlation.

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Data Analysis

Regressi

on

In this regression we see that again the correlation between building playgrounds and self esteem is not

significant.

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Sustainability (Budget):