VNL Cares: 10 years of impact with GiGis Playhouse [Video]

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) – Our big VNL Cars Impact Day is next week.

GiGi’s Playhouse Fargo is thrilled to celebrate a decade of difference in 2025, marking 10 years of transformative impact in the Fargo-Moorhead region and beyond.

“It is so important for families to feel like they’re a a part of a family, a part of a community. A diagnosis, like any diagnosis, can be devastating. You can often put yourself in shoes and be like ‘What did I do wrong?’ Changing that tune is like, ‘I just need more tools in my toolbox to help me be a better mom, be a better parent, to help my child reach high expectations diagnosis or no diagnosis,’” says GiGi’s Playhouse Executive Director Heather Lorenzen.

Over the past decade, GiGi’s has provided more than 30,000 hours of free educational, therapeutic, and social programs for individuals with Down syndrome of …