Playing Well For Community
Building Stronger Communities Together
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Communities thrive when connection sparks communication and collaboration. Whether providing resources through community centers, care centers, therapy offices, or youth programs, play reaches everyone. PLAYSTRUCK transformative tools translate unspoken needs, build bridges between generations, and help community members in transition or recovery.
Our play systems serve those who serve others:
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Local leaders and organizers bridging divides and building communities
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Therapists guiding clients through life’s hardest transitions
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Caregivers rekindling joy amid dementia’s fog
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Youth workers building resilience through creative expression
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Unlike traditional approaches, our thoughtful products and experiences create pathways to connection that feel empowering, build new lines of communication, and measure growth in courage.
The Powerful Impact of Play
Across senior centers, youth programs, and clinical settings, our research-backed play systems do more than facilitate interaction. When words aren’t enough, play speaks.
4X
Youth engaged in play-based entrepreneurial programs demonstrate 4x greater likelihood of emerging as community problem-solvers and social leaders in adulthood. This transformative effect stems from play's unique ability to reframe challenges as opportunities—a mindset that persists long after childhood.
40%
Communities implementing play frameworks report 40% higher engagement in rehabilitation and healing programs compared to traditional approaches. When activities incorporate trauma-informed play principles, participants feel safer taking first steps toward reintegration and connection.
43%
For adults experiencing memory loss, regular group activities like guided storytelling and collaborative art show a 43% measurable increase in cognitive engagement). These expressive play interventions activate neural pathways that conventional therapies often miss.
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Play Builds Bridges
Bringing play-based tools to those who need it most: therapists, caregivers, program organizers, and community leaders. These products, experiences, and workshops are practical, fun, and transformative.
Products & Experiences
Screen-free, trauma-informed tools like The Doodle Challenge™ and Hack Like a Hero™ that spark connection across generations—proven in therapy rooms, memory care centers, and youth programs alike.
Workshops
Professional trainings where therapists, caregivers, and community leaders master play-facilitation through lived experience, transforming theory into implementation.
Partnerships
Custom collaborations to co-create play-based solutions for your unique community needs—because the most powerful interventions emerge from shared wisdom.
The Doodle Challenge
(All Ages)
Simple Sketches Spark Profound Connections
What looks like simple sketching becomes something far more profound in the hands of care providers. Memory care specialists use our picture prompts to unlock forgotten memories. Trauma therapists watch clients externalize complex emotions through drawing in a way they’d never say aloud. Youth workers see guarded kids relax as they realize there’s no "wrong way" to doodle.
The beauty lies in its simplicity:
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No artistic skill needed
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Takes just a few minutes to spark meaningful connections
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Works everywhere from memory care wards to community rec rooms
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​The same tool that helps a family connect to each other can help memory patients connect to their past. That’s the power of doodling.
Key Level Score™
(Adults)
The Check-In that Changes Everything
Imagine a tool that helps an after-school counselor spot which kids need extra support today. Picture a community center where staff and volunteers can say "I'm at a 3 today" and instantly get what that means. That's the magic of the Key Level Score (KLS) in action.
This visual, research-backed system helps communities:
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Create safe ways to express needs without big emotional conversations
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Spot quiet volunteers and staff who are running on empty before they burn out
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Build shared understanding with simple, colorful cues
Designed for Real-World Healing
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Trauma-informed: no triggering questions, just intuitive color/number scales
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Neurodivergent friendly: works with diverse communication styles
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Accessible: can be used by people of all ages and abilities
The KLS also plays well with The Doodle Challenge™ and Hack Like a Hero™. Once you discover where your community stands, you can implement the tools to help them best.
The Well Played Life™ Framework
(Adults)
Rebuild Joy, Resilience, and Connection—Together.
The Well Played Life™ is a trauma-informed, science-backed model that helps adult individuals and communities reclaim their innate play instincts to heal, grow, and thrive. Designed for individuals, groups, facilitators, and community leaders, it reveals how play styles and motivations shape energy, identity, and collective well-being.
Why Communities Love It
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Collective Healing: Uncover how trauma or societal roles suppress natural engagement and reactivate it as a group.
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Shared Language: Use the Play Stack visual tools to foster empathy, storytelling, and mutual support.
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Sustainable Change: Move from burnout to curiosity-driven action with frameworks that scale across teams, families, or cohorts.
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Use It To…
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Host workshops that rebuild trust and creative energy
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Guide life transitions in group settings
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Train leaders to foster play-based resilience in their communities
Everyone in your community has the ability to lead a Well Played Life™.
Hack Like a Hero™ (Youth & Adult)
Neighborhoods Uncover their Superpowers!
Every community is full of everyday heroes: the grandmother who organizes block parties, the teen who tutors younger kids, the crossing guard who knows everyone’s name. Hack Like a Hero™ helps communities recognize and celebrate these quiet strengths through the magic of play.
* For Youth Programs: Helps kids reframe challenges as exciting missions and turns community spaces into "hero training grounds.
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* For Community Builders: Turns local problems into collaborative quests and meetings into missions.
* For Intergenerational Connection: Elders become "Wise Guides" sharing life experience and kids teach tech skills as "Digital Heroes."
Imagine a park cleanup that becomes a "Save the City" adventure or a food drive transformed into a "Hunger Heroes" campaign, all while neighbors bond over shared "Hero Origin Stories." Hack Like a Hero™ can also be a catalyst for community entrepreneurship and attract fresh talent and perspectives to your community.
Strong communities aren’t built by superheroes, they’re built by people playing, connecting, and seeing the extraordinary in everyday life.
Trusted Across Every Corner of
Community Care
For Those Doing the Work in Every Corner of Community Care
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From clinical offices to community centers, PLAYSTRUCK’s play therapy techniques and tools empower society’s most essential workers.
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Therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals
Senior centers and dementia care providers
Faith-based and nonprofit organizations
Occupational and art therapists
Rec centers, family centers, and community orgs
Neurodivergent-inclusive and trauma-informed programs
Youth programs, afterschool teams, and SEL facilitators
Support groups and healing circles
Local libraries and county resources
Your expertise combined with PLAYSTRUCK’s tools equip your community to play well for life.
Connect with Us
Let’s bring PLAYSTRUCK to your community.
We offer:
• Custom product bundles
• Facilitator training
• Multi-site and district pricing
• Digital and physical delivery options
Big Ideas
Uncover more playful insights in our blog.
