Beliefs
Games for Everyone believes playing cooperative table-top and role-playing games provides benefits for people of all ages. These benefits can include:
- Developing problem-solving skills
- Encouraging creative thinking
- Building self-esteem
- Increasing collaboration and negotiation abilities
- Improving social interactions
- Reducing sadness and depression
- Increasing joy
Actions
Games for Everyone seeks to promote these benefits to everyone, with a focus on teen shelters, in-patient services, therapeutic centers, low socioeconomic status advocates, and other organizations. We do this by providing games, manuals, and other materials so that these organizations can share and play these games with their members.
Games for Everyone will also seek out volunteers to set up games in their areas where such organizations aren’t available or match volunteers with existing organizations to introduce these games to their members or institute regular gaming sessions.
Vision
Games for Everyone wants all people who wish to experience the benefits of cooperative table-top and role-playing games to be able to do so. We especially want to introduce teens and people with social or mental health challenges to these tools as a teaching and coping mechanism. We also strive to create an equitable environment where individuals in low socioeconomic categories that may not otherwise have access to these materials can partake in gaming. Because everyone should be able to experience these benefits. Because everyone deserves to know the fun and camaraderie games offer. Because everyone deserves to game.