Cindy Ehlers wanted a place where her all of her children, with and without disabilities, could play.
“It became one of these things where I realized, as a mom, they couldn’t play together,” she said. “There were barriers in just the way the playgrounds were constructed that weren’t really necessary.”
She approached her job, Trillium Health Resources, and together they built New Bern’s first inclusive playground in 2015. Since then Trillium — which provides mental health, substance use and disabilities services to about half of the state — has built 43 inclusive playgrounds across the state including in some of North Carolina’s most rural counties…