Why attend GiGi’s Educator Symposium: Teaching Strategies for Individuals with Down Syndrome?
(Reposted from GiGi's Playhouse, Inc.) The GiGi’s Educator Symposium is FREE, VIRTUAL and INFORMATIVE! Are you interested in Learning from a team of experienced educators and therapists? Learning strategies for teaching individuals with Down syndrome to implement on Monday? Learning how individuals with Down syndrome learn best? Learning the “why”...
2024 Board Strategic Retreat
As the new year unfolds, GiGi's Atlanta is gearing up for our best year ever guided by a recently concluded strategic planning retreat. On Saturday, January 20, the Board and Staff met to discuss and plan goals for 2024, standards of execution, risk management, and the exciting lineup of fundraising...
Volunteer Spotlight on our Hispanic Community
The Hispanic Community has turned out for GiGi's Atlanta! We are blown away by the support of time, talents, and innovative ideas! First we were graced with the incredible skills of Celi Viloria, of CeliOrganizer. She and her team spent hours sorting through an array of tutoring tools, games, art...
New Year, New Playhouse, New Programs!
With 2023 quickly coming to a close, we at GiGi's Playhouse Atlanta have a lot to be grateful for. We are grateful to our families for trusting us to provide meaningful programs and a community. We are grateful to our volunteers for being our boots on the ground to make...
Expansion Update: Paint!
GiGi's Atlanta has been honored with so many organizations and volunteers lending their expertise, time, and donations! This week we have been joined by the wonderful people at Graydaze Contracting to help with our painting needs! Their employees are not only donating the paint but their time and professionalism to...
Expansion Tour
We have had so many families able to walk through the new Playhouse expansion site but we wanted ALL of our families to see the incredible progress on our new space! Painting and flooring is coming in the next two weeks and then we will begin to fill the rooms...
Best of All: JoJo
JoJo is the happiest 7 year old boy you will meet. He loves his family, playing at GiGi's, and his tutor, Laara. They began working together at the beginning of the summer and they hit it off quickly. JoJo's mom does an amazing job homeschooling him and works with Laara...
Get Ready for a Seamless School Transition
As the school year wraps up, we have a few tips to help students have a smooth and seamless transition to the next grade. Put together a folder with your child’s most recent IEP, progress report, report card, therapy notes, and testing reports. Ask your current case manager who your...
Visitors from Nigeria!
GiGi's Atlanta often has walk-in visitors to the Playhouse but today we had some exceptional guests! Tonye Faloughi-Ekezie and her sister walked in while on a US visit from Lagos, Nigeria. Tonye has a 7 year old daughter with Down syndrome named Simone. The arrival of Simone brought many questions...
The Power of Sharing
One of the many elements of the GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge (GFAC) is sharing your team. With that comes sharing the story of who you are moving for and why. We love seeing all the social media posts from our families and friends sharing their mission to spread acceptance and inclusion...
World Down Syndrome Day with the Hawks
On Saturday, March 25, the Atlanta Hawks help us continue to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day. The Knight Family was gifted game tickets and an on-court experience courtesy of the Lady Hawks. The Lady Hawks is a group of women comprised of the wives, significant others, and mothers of Hawks...
Meet Dancing with Adriana
"Dancing with Adriana" at the 2022 GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge Team Captain Lily Torres' team for our GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge is "Dancing with Adriana" in honor of her daughter. As Lily says "Adriana came to my life to change the set of mind I was in. She helped me become a...