(Quyionah Wingfield and her girl Serenity. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Quyionah Wingfield)
Cool Moms Dance Too Founder Quyionah Wingfield and her girl Serenity discovered a mode to promote steadfast connection amongst families done gaming.
This crippled known arsenic Connection Gen is successful a class of its ain by bridging the spread amongst generations.
“The intent down it is benignant of knowing that done conversations, we tin person the close types of conversations and we tin link generations,” Wingfield said.
Serenity, Wingfield’s 8 year-old daughter, believed it helped her pass with her parent connected a deeper level.
“We get person erstwhile I larn things astir her aft she answers the question,” Serenity said.
This crippled is offered successful Apps crossed mobile devices owed to the concern Wingfield created with The Center for Civic Innovation, Georgia Tech, and Colton College.
“We conscionable started going done the process of continuing to make the crippled and Serenity did a batch with the plan and the idiosyncratic acquisition process. It continuously evolved implicit the past twelvemonth into and present we are successful the app store,” Wingfield said.
Serenity and her parent are not finished with the plans they person for Connection Gen arsenic they privation to scope arsenic galore families arsenic imaginable to supply stronger bonds crossed the world.
“We person a truly awesome extremity to get the app successful 22,000 families hands by the extremity of outpouring 2022,” they said.
The Connection Gen app has galore partnerships successful the works some locally and nationally. Wingfield told the Atlanta Voice she has plans to big a crippled nighttime astatine the Gathering Spot wrong the adjacent fewer months.
“A batch of the partners that we’re looking astatine are local, hyperlocal, arsenic good arsenic national. We really conscionable made interaction with a erstwhile spouse from ‘Cool Mom’s Dance Too’, our creation programme successful Ghana, to commencement doing crippled nights with a fewer organizations and connected schools successful Ghana,”Wingfield said.
Wingfield emphasized the intent of the crippled is to unfastened up a wide enactment of connection for each that determine to play. She explains however it has helped her arsenic a parent aft moving connected a Parent Guide with students from Emory University during her improvement process.
“The Parent Guide fundamentally takes each the questions successful the crippled and provides interpretations,” Wingfield elaborated.
The Connection Gen App plans to spouse with intelligence wellness organizations specified arsenic Mental Health America Georgia and NAMI Georgia.
“It’s not a crippled that’s going to person folks crying. It’s fun. We person a creation challenge.We person antithetic things that marque it fun. It allows you to deliberation a small deeper astir however you consciousness astir definite things and I deliberation that’s meaningful,” Wingfield said.
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