Therapeutic Recreation (or recreation therapy) is using recreational and other activities as treatment interventions to improve functional living skills by focusing on physical, emotional, cognitive, and social developmental areas. As a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist, I am able to look at the needs of each child and create activities to meet those needs. I meet… Read More
Already July?
So hard to believe that it is already July! Gio’s Garden has been open and serving families for a month now! We have gotten a lot accomplished over the last month. We have started providing care for a few different families. It does take some time to fill out all the paperwork that is required… Read More
A Special Night with UW’s OTs
Saturday evening, my husband, Adam, had just buckled Lauren into the car to meet her brother at a birthday party, as I prepared to leave for the UW-Madison Occupational Therapy graduation banquet. Spur-of-the-moment, I asked Lauren if she’d want to come with me, to thank the OTs for helping Gio’s Garden and to tell them… Read More
We are moving forward!
Hi everyone! I just wanted to quickly introduce myself as the new Director and fill you in on all of the things that are in the works. Lots of exciting things are happening at Gio’s Garden. My name is Val Croissant and I am so excited to be a part of the Gio’s team. I’m… Read More
It Only Took 22 Months
That’s how long we have been fundraising for Gio’s Garden. We actually received our first donation, the kickstart that told us get this ball rolling, in January 2010. But we received our first website donation the night of March 10th, 2010. Our website had just gone up a few hours earlier and we were excited,… Read More
