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Connecting New Orleans Children to Nature: The Role of the Parks
Connecting New Orleans Children to Nature: The Role of the Parks
Monday, November 17, 2014
: 8:50 AM - 9:10 AM
Healthy Parks, Healthy People US is a National Park Service initiative working to reintegrate human, environmental and ecological health into the mission of public parks and public lands. The initiative aims to employ holistic approaches to promoting health and wellbeing while sustainably managing our natural resources. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve and New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park partnered with the National Environmental Education Foundation to launch the Children and Nature: Rx for Outdoor Activity Initiative in New Orleans. This presentation will describe the implementation strategies, successes and lessons learned from this project which connects children ages 6-14 under the managed care of a physician, to four national park sites in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
Learning Areas:
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programsLearning Objectives:
Explain the project and describe the project outcomes
Keyword(s): Child Health Promotion, Environmental Health
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the chief of interpretation and education at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park and the Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve. I am the project leader for the New Orleans Children and Nature Initiative.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.
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