The National Recreation and Park Association is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing park, recreation, and conservation efforts that enhance quality of life for all people.
Through its network of 50,000 recreation and park professionals and citizens, NRPA encourages the promotion of healthy and active lifestyles, conservation initiatives and equitable access to parks and public space.
Interesting, I am an engineering student and am currently working on a giant pinball machine that kids can control by jumping on certain tiles. So far I really like making something for kids.
So many families are not receiving SNAP benefits. During the summer months, Community Wellness Hub partnerships are the link to reaching marginalized families in their neighborhoods.
mis·sion creep, noun: a gradual shift in objectives during the course of a military campaign, often resulting in an unplanned long-term commitment. Your videos say that equity is the most important of the three "pillars" for parks and recreation, and that race is the most important factor for equity. So the most important aspect of parks and recreation is race? I think the most important thing should be parks. A close second? Recreation. You are shifting from a mission of serving parks and recreation to one of forcing your political view onto the public. Everyone should look deeply at that equity language guide. It's disgusting. Here's a direct quote: "dominant culture: Organizational culture that is heavily influenced by the leadership, management and organizational development as defined by white men and women. Dominant cultures do not embrace diversity of any kind beyond representation, and they promote assimilation over integration." So here we have an organization with a white CEO preaching at us about how white "dominant culture" does "not embrace diversity of any kind." It also explains the necessity to capitalize the word "Black" in many contexts, but "The term 'white' should be lowercase."
Racism has been one of the defining forces of American society. For the majority of our history, there was legal segregation that shaped what our neighborhoods looked like and excluded people of color from areas with the most resources and opportunities. The legacy of those policies continues on today. Acknowledging that history and identifying that Parks & Recreation can play a role in building more equitable communities is about helping us to build a stronger, more unified America. Our challenge has always been to form a more perfect union, not to pretend that our nation is perfect.
Equity language guide, I have some language for you you woke supremacist! MAN, WOMAN, AMERICAN, CITIZEN, PERIOD!!!!!! FYCK SAKES, this is what taxpayer dollars are being spent on!?
I'm studying to get my CPSI. What are your recommendations to study prior taking the exam. I know there will be hazard identification, surfacing, risk management, playground environment and much more. I just dont want to over study and miss what I need to focus on. Thank you
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It was suggested I pass this along to you….re Universal Design at schools neighborhood parks, sports, rec centers and parks for differently able such as Jonathan’s Dream and Shane’s Inspiration and the like..Dr. Reeve Brenner….301 309 0260 Testimony Larry My name is Larry R. and I’m an accountant blessed with two children, two sons who are autistic, or more properly, on different stages of the autistic spectrum. The two boys love to play ball as do their parents with them. But when I take the family to a park or school playground it nearly breaks our hearts. At every one of these parks and school playgrounds, you can see at once that there are plenty of ballplaying facilities for typical children. The average youngster or teen can wait in line to play basketball, soccer and the rest. But these are all team sports with opponents. They are not independent or individualized sports so that my boys can drop-in and participate along with everyone else in the community. This is understood as mainstreaming which does not exist apart from programs which further segregated and segment differently able populations. Why do all the typical kids get ballplaying facilities so much so that many of them are empty like the tennis courts being built for fewer and fewer participants. The point is there are many drop-in facilities: sports courts and sports fields for everyone but not for kids who are physically and cognitively challenged or mobility impaired or in wheelchairs or have other disabilities. They too should have drop-in ball playing sports to drop in with their family to play together and interact with others. There are none. What’s the point of a ramp leading to discrimination and exclusion which characterizes the new parks designed with little thought to including the differently-able. They are neglected willfully by a kind of callous indifference on the part of the authorities. It’s very sad and I speak not only for my own family. I’m certain i speak also for many of our county’s differently able children and adults who would also like to play ball at facility but not with opponents, and not with teams, “a sport that does not require offense and defense but actively move their bodies, and are presented with sports challenges that they can succeed at, that socialize and mainstream’s all populations. We need to be giving consideration to diversity and the integration of special populations into a community activity. These parks offer accessibility when they should be offering inclusion.” {THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR RECREATIONAL EQUALITY website}. The only glimmer of hope is that of the Bankshot court we played at in several parks and school playgrounds that brings a community together and includes the differently able. I wish officialdom would visit a court to experience walk-on, drop-in, inclusion. Why so few of these and others like it? There ought to be many such play opportunities in the community addressing the needs of the total community rather than merely the jocks and athletes. All families blessed with all kinds of children should have drop-in facilities to play ball just like other typical children and not always aggressive and having to defeat rivals but by playing alongside one another, not against one another, where, as I heard said, “you don’t have to win to be a winner,” [NARE] Rather, it is participation alongside others in mainstreaming disabled that brings a community together. There are many of us who would like to see attention paid to those who are so underserved in our parks. The parks and playgrounds from the perspective of my family and many others are sadly disappointing. Links to the two videos from the August event (8-19-18) in King Farm. ru-vid.com/group/PLc3Pp02aDFBz0lkVuKbSgpQPTAfvb-9wg Bankshot RU-vid playlist We would like to suggest that a Bankshot playcourt be included in the parks, rec centers and playgrounds for the sake of the differently able and the autistic community, wheelchair participants and others mobility impaired. Please check out Bankshot.com and the National Association for Recreational Equality. The atypical community is often overlooked and they are provided with programs when they really need drop-in walk on facilities so they can gain accessibility any time with their families and friends in a wheelchair on any given day without having to wait for supervised playgrounds. Please check out other cities with Bankshot Playcourts designed for the inclusion and diversity of the full population using our commons. NARE: LET’S PLAY FAIR WHEELCHAIRS + RAMPS = FRUSTRATION I roll up itching to play ball and instead I watch. Foiled again! I want to be playing ball like everyone else, all the kids I hang out with. As a teenager I’ve long ago outgrown interest in climbing playgrounds even if I could climb up. As a wheelchair user I know that we separate not in the classroom but in the playgrounds - especially the ball fields. They put in a great many basketball courts, tennis courts, baseball, soccer and other games and sports fields for all the jocks and athletes. So some few athletes get all the attention and all their running sports that exclude me and I get nothing! How can accessibility not make matters worse for the wheelchair would-be-players, for the differently-able, for the cognitively and physically challenged? The ramps do not lead to inclusion but to our own immediate elimination- to banishment to the sidelines even before a ball is tossed. Why even show up? When was the last time you saw a kid or an adult in a wheelchair even show up with his friends or family at a sport intended for the participation of everyone else? The special populations now have greater accessibility to total frustration. They can now roll on up to the perimeter to experience exclusion with ever greater irony than before the ramps were built. How can we be included in the pick- up games of conventional sports? Do I bring along 10 wheelchairs so I can get a game with average kids my age? Where are the sports like Bankshot which allow all players to participate? Gary D
I am glad to hear that the reopening of restrooms are inclusive in the first phase. As far as I am concerned, being able to go to the bathroom is essential business.
Wonderful job Kristine! We are so fortunate to have you at the helm. Please give my best to your incredible staff - they are innovating, adapting and learning some tricks that will make NRPA even stronger going forward!
