Featured Resources
With summer just days away, it’s a great time to start or continue your work on Goal V: Active Kids at Play! The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) has a variety of tools and success stories to help you create trail systems in your community, improve the equity and accessibility of your parks, and increase collaboration with local partners.
Parks Build Healthy Communities: Success Stories
This publication features successful strategies from 44 cities, towns and counties that have proved effective for building healthy communities through parks and recreation. Some innovative examples in this publication include park prescription programs, promoting fitness in the classroom, the development of mayor’s fitness councils, and unique partnerships with faith-based and non-profit groups.
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“No Body Gets Left Behind” Park Equity and Access Dialogue Guide
How accessible and welcoming are your parks, recreation and greenspaces to people of all abilities, ages and socioeconomic status? This NRPA tool is designed to help local park and recreation agencies play a leadership role in bringing together a diverse group of people and organizations who are interested in or working towards creating healthy, vibrant communities by creating or improving the accessibility of community park and recreational systems for all residents, regardless of physical ability, race, culture, ethnicity, socioeconomic status or age.
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Pathways to Healthier Communities-Trail Systems and Healthy Communities Dialogue Guide
This guide offers a starting place for building the trust, relationships and shared understanding that is needed in order to make progress toward creating and sustaining more accessible and valued trail systems in your community.
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NRPA is a non-profit focused on advancing parks, recreation, and environmental conservation efforts that enhance the quality of life for all people. They have numerous tools and resources that could be helpful. To learn more visit: http://www.nrpa.org