Bringing People & Parks Together
Parks and public lands are mobilizing to address a health care crisis caused by inactivity and associated disease. Learn how parks, providers, and prescribers work together to:
- Improve the health of millions of people
- Form innovative community partnerships
- Create new value for parks & open spaces
- Tap an underutilized resource for health
How are you bringing parks & people together?
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore: Park Prescription Program
Teaming with Porter Health System, the National Park Service is working with health care providers near Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore to encourage patients to get healthy using the great outdoors as a tool. Under this program, health care professionals actually write prescriptions for their patients to take a walk, bicycle,... read more
Muir Woods Café
The Café inside Muir Woods National Monument used to be a place where a visitor might purchase a sandwich as an afterthought on the way home from a walk on Muir Beach. Today, the Café is a destination in its own right. In response to a prospectus that... read more
Golden Gate Community Trailhead Project
The Community Trailhead Project (CTP) is a collaboration designed to encourage residents of a San Francisco neighborhood and members of a local YMCA to use nearby trails and national park lands to improve health. The program is a successful collaboration of a community-based fitness center, a national park (Golden Gate... read more
Cancer Awareness, Resources, & Education (CARE)
Since 2002, the CARE program has provided culturally and linguistically tailored education, community building opportunities and healthy meals for the hospital’s English-, Spanish-, and Cantonese-speaking cancer patients. This award-winning program offers a thoughtfully developed, patient-centered curriculum that has been successful in educating and engaging our diverse cancer... read more