The Restorative Wellness Playground is a program with a mission to develop deeper, personal, physical and mental health throughout Bronx Community College (BCC) and its extended community by learning to authentically practice self-care. This includes expressing an individual’s own voice, exercising one’s choices, and the personal narrative of joyously telling one’s own story.

Professor Kelvin Cooper, chair of the BCC’s Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, established the program embodying the mission of restorative justice to increase the health and personal authenticity of people at all levels of BCC and its environment.

The program is partly based on the work of Brazilian philosopher and educator, Paulo Freire. Freire, a Portuguese philosopher and educator, in the e

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