Participant Best of All: Jonathan Saffold

Jonathan Saffold has been a young man of many talents and a treasure to volunteers, tutors, and other participants alike, in many of GiGi’s Playhouse programs that he takes part in. As a consistent presence in both our GiGiFIT Adult and GiGi’s Kitchen Adult programs, as well as our 1-on-1 tutoring and Group Speech programs, Jonathan is always making purposeful progress. With nearly every successive week, you can see Jonathan make strides and elevate his involvement in multiple areas. If he isn’t cleaning up cooking ingredients, checking expiration dates, or throwing out the trash after our kitchen program, he is being an asset in our GiGiFIT program with his positive attitude.

Jonathan has gone from sporadically following fitness instructions as part of the GiGiFIT group, to recently helping program leads by willingly demonstrating exercises and championing his fellow participants with enthusiasm and encouragement. His ability to not only showcase his own Best of All, but even more importantly, bring it out in his friends at GiGi’s Playhouse Tampa, is why we celebrate Jonathan!  

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