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Parks Maintenance: Innovative Strategies for Local Funding

The past decade has seen unprecedented investment in city parks from the federal government, which will infuse billions of dollars into communities across the United States. These investments are essential — and overdue. But they miss a major concern within the parks world: maintenance funding. Local government officials rank maintaining park and recreation areas as the top funding priority for parks. But budgets can’t keep up with the demands: NRPA estimates a $60 billion backlog of deferred maintenance among local agencies across the country. This session will share with attendees new research into high-impact funding mechanisms for park operations and maintenance, including local ballot measures, public-private partnerships and other innovative funding sources. Attendees will learn how to identify and evaluate potential sources within their communities, and chart a path forward for securing maintenance funding.

CEU's: 0.04

$12.00
$17.00
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Partnering with the Business Sector: Trends in Parks and Rec

Two members of NRPA’s Business Council join Kellie May, NRPA’s Chief Partnership Officer, for this panel discussion. Council members come from different facets of the business community that serve the field of parks and recreation. Each has a unique perspective and experience, both personally and as a representative of their company. They will discuss the trends and innovations being made by the P&R business sector and how agencies can successfully partner with businesses to deploy solutions to better serve their communities.

CEU's: 0.1

$35.00
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Physical Activity Guidelines w/ the Move Your Way® Campaign

The Move Your Way® campaign, released alongside the second edition of the “Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans,” aims to increase awareness and knowledge of the guidelines, increase physical activity self-efficacy, and ultimately change behavior. It includes more than 80 free resources, such as posters, fact sheets and videos that are available in English and Spanish and tested with diverse audiences. Park and recreation professionals can use campaign materials to disseminate clear, informative and accessible physical activity messages. This session will offer an overview of the campaign, showcase where to find free materials and highlight practical strategies park and recreation professionals can use to promote physical activity.

CEU's: 0.04

$12.00
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Play Throughout Life: Playful Preferences at Any Age

"People are hard-wired to be lifetime players; play behavior is one of the most important parts of being human, it is part of our natural instinct. Play evokes natural glee, but involvement in humor, games, fantasy, and other play behaviors are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults -- and keeping it up throughout our life can make us smarter at any age. Learn about the benefits of play throughout life, how to identify play personalities, and how these strategies can help you identify intrinsic motivators for play that will help you create meaningful play environments."

CEU's: 0.04

$12.00
$17.00
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Possibility Through Inclusive Play & Recreation

Discover how the 7 Principles of Inclusive Playground Design, the only evidence-based design best practices for outdoor play and recreation environments, address the physical, social-emotional, sensory, cognitive, and communitive needs of all individuals, including those with disabilities. By creating conditions of possibility for inclusion to occur, communities can invest and champion opportunities that meet the diverse needs of society, create a deeper sense of belonging, and enrich healthy play and recreation experiences of people of all ages and abilities. This session offers unique insights to help make the case, create awareness, and advocate for built environments and programs that are more usable, to more people, to the greatest extent possible.

CEU's: 0.04

$12.00
$17.00
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Providing Equitable Service to Hispanic & Latinx Communities

Does your agency struggle in the areas of engagement, representation, participation or retention amongst your Hispanic or Spanish-speaking community members? As social and ethnic demographics continue to change, the subject of Hispanic engagement is not a question of “if” but of “when.” This presentation will overview the specific approaches two particular agencies have taken (BCRP & MNCPPC) to pursuing a more robust Hispanic engagement strategy, as well as a more holistic representation amongst its Hispanic and Latinx constituents. The methodology will focus specifically on the areas of hiring, programming and training while simultaneously illustrating how the importance of a more collaborative, grassroots approach can lead to the greatest levels of success.

CEU's: 0.1

$35.00
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Reimagined Community Gardens

A beautiful, open-to-the-public community garden was built in Frisco, Texas, between the senior center and a popular playground. As expected, there were problems with produce poaching. If you build a fence, you gain security, but what do you lose? This session, led by Education and Outreach Supervisor Cory MacGillivray will focus on how reimagining the purpose of a community garden can open new possibilities for education, outreach and unique programming that extends beyond the resident gardeners. We also will discuss the pitfalls of an open garden in a high-traffic area, as well as some practical solutions.

CEU's: 0.04

$12.00
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Repositioning Underutilized Spaces as Community Assets

Fringe cities and towns are challenged to provide parks, whether due to a lack of land or funding, and often must think outside of the box to deliver community-oriented projects. There are means to achieving these aspirational projects by recognizing the potential of underutilized spaces, like parking lots and vacant buildings, and forming strategic partnerships that provide alternative funding sources. This session will use Bell Tower Green, located in Salisbury, North Carolina, as a case study for repositioning a parking lot as a community asset and partnering with a private foundation to fund a signature park. The discussion will be led by the senior landscape designer who will discuss their role in navigating the partnership between the city and foundation, approaches to community engagements, and the process to design and implement the park. Additionally, the speaker will discuss the successful transition of ownership from the foundation to the city for long-term maintenance and operations.

CEU's: 0.04

$12.00
$17.00
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Role of Value Judgements in Parks’ Natural Resource Mgmt.

Park resource managers are usually well-versed in the technical aspects of natural resource management, but they frequently miss the value judgements of their constituents. Often this includes constituents they hadn't engaged from underserved communities. The average person makes their decision of whether something is OK or NOT OK in two to three seconds based on their value judgements, often with little knowledge or regard to why a management practice is being used. This can have profound impacts on your conservation plan implementation. This session will go into how value judgements are formed. Go through the need for proactive outreach being critical to a park departments conservation plans. Throughout the session, attendees will be asked OK or NOT OK to complex park related natural resources issues. Based on attendees backgrounds, everyone will see significant differences in OK or NOT OK. Stakeholder engagement, outreach, media relations and professionalism are all critical. Learning Objectives: 1. Identify three factors that will influence constituents value judgements of their actions. 2. Articulate three ways to minimize negative interactions with the public regarding their natural resource management. 3. Identify three ways to encourage diversity and inclusiveness in their natural resource planning.

CEU's: 0.1

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Safety and Security in the Highly Connected 21st Century

This session will go over the risks of doing nothing as it relates to computer technology use in our day-to-day operations, both in the workplace and at home. We will identify the red flags to be cognizant of, how to identify serious risks, and the steps to take to minimize the risks. Cyber security is often overlooked by staff as something the IT department takes care of, but in actuality, it is something that all of us need to be concerned with. Raising awareness of all staff and users is critical to maintaining the safety and security of all our systems. Ninety-two percent of all data breaches are the result of end users mistakenly responding to phishing emails. These breaches can be avoided through regular, ongoing Security Awareness Training. Alongside the training, it is important to have a program that regularly sends simulated phishing emails. This type of program actually inoculates staff and helps prepare them to know how to recognize the increasingly sophisticated attacks we face daily.

CEU's: 0.04

$12.00
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