It’s that time again. We have been running our five weekly groups for several quarters now, and have hired and trained two new facilitators to run additional groups. We now have the capacity to expand again, and we’d love to serve even more youth in the greater Seattle area. Our groups use games like Dungeons […]
Did you miss our webinar a few weeks ago? Want to make sure you never miss another opportunity to connect? We’ve heard from more and more people that they want advance notice for when and where we’re going to make a presentation, offer a training, or staff a table at an event. We listened! Now […]
Founders Adam Davis and Adam Johns were invited to present at the Child’s Play Charity Dinner Auction about what Game to Grow has accomplished thanks to the generous grant we received from Child’s Play this year. To find out more about how you can support Game to Grow make our visions for 2019 possible, […]
We are honored to have been selected as a 2019 official charity partner for GenCon, the longest running tabletop convention in North America! We were chosen along with Special Olympics Indiana, and as part of this agreement, both organizations will receive proceeds from Gen Con’s 2019 fundraising efforts, including longstanding charity events such as […]
2018 has been a great year! This year we provided game-based therapeutic services to around 40 kids each week across our five weekly social skills groups, and we hired and trained two new facilitators so that even more youth can receive services. Over the summer we offered game-based summer camps, incorporating craft and other enrichment activities, and led workshops instructing families […]
There are so many GREAT ways to support Game to Grow this holiday season! On Giving Tuesday, you can make a donation via Facebook Fundraisers, and Facebook will match the first seven million dollars of donations on a first-come-first-served basis. You can read more here. You can also earn $10 for Game to Grow by […]
Executive Director Adam Davis here. I recently learned that Facebook will match the first 7 million dollars of donations made on Tuesday, November 27th, up to $250,000 per organization! This is an amazing opportunity for Game to Grow to raise funds for continued expansion in 2019! That sounds amazing, but here’s the catch: It’s first-come, […]
We returned yesterday from Washington, DC., where we gave a plenary session at the ICDL conference called Critical Core: Role-Playing Games and the Future of Social-Skills Enrichment. We were very excited to present about Critical Core and our work using Dungeons and Dragons in therapeutic social skills groups. We shared the theory behind our model, […]
Next weekend we’ll be presenting at the ICDL conference in Washington, DC, about role-playing games for therapeutic growth and Critical Core, and the following Friday we’ll be presenting at the Pierce County Counselor’s Association in a 90 minute presentation titled “Dungeons, Dragons, and Social Development: Roleplaying Games as a Tool for Growth.” The meeting will be […]
We’ll be presenting a plenary session at the 2018 International DIRFloortime Conference in Washington, DC, titled Critical Core: Role-Playing Games and the Future of Social-Skills Enrichment. The conference will be Friday and Saturday, November 9 & 10, and attendees will be able to receive CEUs! Adam Davis and Adam Johns will be co-presenting with Virginia Spielmann, who […]