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School and park partnerships can provide
unique opportunities for strengthening
play through the joint collaboration and
use of parks and programs.

Edible Parks
You can not only enjoy your parks, but eat
them too! Learn how parks can be sites
for urban agriculture, community gardens, and edible landscapes and how to
create them. Also, discuss farmers markets, community-supported agriculture,
and other types of urban agriculture that
bring fresh food to urban communities.

Nature Rocks: Strengthening
Community Connections and
Awareness with Nature
Discover tools, tips, and strategies designed to help you raise awareness of the
importance of connecting children and
families to the natural world. Secure your
organization's position within the marketplace by helping parents find your location through Nature Rocks, a family fun
nature finder affiliated with the Children
and Nature Network.

Making Better Use of Parks
for Physical Activity and
Community Health
Parks can play a significant role in addressing the bulging obesity epidemic. Hear about the latest research on the
contributions of parks to physical activity
and discuss strategies for documenting
and communicating the important role of
parks in promoting physical activity and
community health.

Crawford Lecture: Unleashing
the Power of Urban Play
as a Community Asset
Play is the key ingredient of childhood
.While the essence and benefits of play
are universal, all children play. Urban
communities have unique needs/challenges such as space constraints, safety and play leaders. However for all
children, play is critical to their healthy
development and has an inherent value, much like food.

Recreation Roadshow: Telling Your
Community Why They Need You
Do your local government leaders and citizens know why you are important to them?
Can you tell them why recreation is a critical
part of your community? Gain ideas and information to help you go home and develop
your own " Recreation Road Show. "

Skateboarding: Building
Communities Through Outreach
Planning and Youth Empowerment
Communities at the leading edge of youth
engagement are employing a combination of
innovative programming and partnerships
with skateshops and master plans for skateboarding; not just skateparks. These strategies will help to build a much wider base
on support than a typical skatepark project.

Promoting Environmental
Awareness in Kids (PEAK):
Ways to Teach Outdoor Ethics
PEAK is an exciting program including
eight activities/games designed to teach
youth about Leave No Trace. Gain resources to immediately implement PEAK
into your programs. Demonstrations will
model the ease and effectiveness of PEAK
through hands-on activities while providing successful teaching tools.

Engaging Youth Through
Hip-Hop: How to Program
Un-programmable Teens
" No need to argue, parents just don't understand " Will Smith lyric. Is the programming at your facility unattractive to teens?
Learn to program those un-programmable teens. H2P (Hip Hop to Prevent) is an
emerging theory of change recognizing
Hip-Hop as a means to engage youth in
meaningful programs and services.

Sustainability Leadership: Making
Parks a Community Champion
Park and recreation organizations have an
opportunity to champion the sustainability
mission and demonstrate a leadership role
in the community. To be successful, the initiative must be 'in synch' with other community groups and coordinated with local and
state government leaders. Sustainability

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leadership has potential for strengthening
the advocacy base for parks and recreation.

The " State Of Things " in Promoting
Active Recreation in Communities
Recreation and park professionals believe
that park and recreation programs are beneficial; yet, little evidence-based proof exists about this assumption. Listen to the
findings from research focused on park,
community, and school based environments
showing how communities can use the research to impact programs and policy.

Urban Green: Innovative Parks for
Resurgent Cities
'Urban Green' explores innovative ways
for crowded cities to add much-needed
parkland. Look at how much parkland is
truly possible and where specific investment can go. Practical solutions include
reusing defunct factories, sharing schoolyards, building trails on abandoned rail
lines, planting community gardens, decking highways, allowing more activities in
cemeteries, and more.

Collecting Citizen Information for
Comprehensive Planning
Learn about a multi-method approach that
can accomplish the tasks of collecting citizen information as well as creating a great
degree of community awareness.

Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in
Recreation for Individuals with Autism
Receive information, techniques, and
methods on creating supportive recreation
environments for individuals in the Autism
Spectrum disorder so they may live healthy
active lifestyles. Using case studies and
examples, learn ways to explore and
promote active leisure lifestyles.

Safe Summer: One
County's Approach to
Creating Safer Communities
Many cities experience youth crime
spikes in the summer. Learn how a summer program, a campaign, and late night
leisure created healthier and safer communities, and engaged young people in
healthy activities.
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