April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
Child abuse prevention is everyone’s work – whether you have children or not. The Children at Play Network endorses the ...
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CAPN Adds New Trainer
The Children at Play Network has added a new training specialist to the CAPN team to expand professional development opportunities ...
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Podcast for Play
CAPN Director Claude Stephens is featured on the Earth and Spirit Podcast in conversation with host Kyle T. Kramer, Executive ...
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Louisville Nature Center Visits Playcosystem
The Children at Play Network was pleased to host Rebecca Minnick, Executive Director of the Louisville Nature Center (LNC), and ...
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Virtual Play Campference Recap
Back in September the Children at Play Network worked with our friends at Pop-Up Adventure Play to host the international ...
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UofL Education Students visit Playcosytem to Explore Teaching Science through Play
Playcosystem is a great place for children to play, but it’s more than that. It’s also a laboratory to explore ...
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Sacred Heart Preschool at Playcosystem
By Austin Nikolich, Director, Sacred Heart Preschool Sacred Heart Preschool is dedicated to creating and nurturing a play-centered curriculum for ...
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Play is the Way: An In-Depth Series on Putting Play Into Your Practice
In partnership with Sacred Heart Preschool and Thrive Parent and Teacher Consultants, Bernheim’s Children at Play Network will present an ...
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Free Play Days at Olmsted Parks
By Matt Spalding, Olmsted Parks Olmsted Parks Conservancy, a valued partner of the Children at Play Network, is pleased to ...
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Castle Bernheim – Children at Backside Learning Center Make Bernheim Their Own
By Maria Levine Garcia, Youth Education and Enrichment Manager Backside Learning Center youth were some of the first children to ...
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Claude Stephens to provide Key Note for the International Play Association Conference Oct 4-9, 2021
The International Play Association’s purpose is to protect, preserve and promote the child’s right to play as a fundamental human ...
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Virtual Campference Sept. 24th, 2021
Pop-Up Adventure Play in partnership with Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest’s Children at Play Network is delighted to announce this ...
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Nelson County Early Learning Center uses Playcosystem for Classroom Inspiration
Over the past several months Bernheim staff members have been meeting with Nelson County Schools teachers and administrators to foster ...
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New! Inclusive Nature Play Group at Bernheim
Outside the Box Therapy, a non-profit offering nature based therapy in Louisville, Ky., is partnering with Bernheim Arboretum and Research ...
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VIPS Visits Playcosystem
In early August the Playcosystem team had a very productive first meeting with Paige Maynard and Staci Maynard who work ...
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Playcosystem Has Reach
People are starting to hear about Playcosystem outside of our immediate region and some are arranging overnight trips to come ...
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They Hardly Hit the Ground Before Forts Were Built
Today we added 125 clean milk crates to Playcosystem. (A donation from Against the Grain Brewery) We pulled the truck ...
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Red Oaks Forest School visits Playcosystem
Red Oaks Forest School paid a recent visit to Bernheim with their older students to see Playcosystem and other natural ...
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The Outdoors Takes Front Seat at Second Presbyterian Weekday School
In March and April of 2020, as Covid was forcing all of us to rethink the ways we get along ...
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Place Making with the Outdoor Collaborative – Treehouse Design
The Outdoor Collaborative made their way back out to Bernheim’s Playcosystem to help us dream up great ideas for a ...
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