Benefits of Nature
Learning in nature can support improved relationship skills, and reduced stress, anger, and aggression.
What is social emotional wellbeing?
Joint partners leading the national CCCN initiative.
Who are C&NN and NLC?
Nature-filled outdoor spaces that offer students, teachers, parents and community members places to play, learn, explore and grow during and after school hours.
What is Green Schoolyards?
Cities achieve ____when children and families stand on relatively equal footing, and race no longer predicts resources and opportunities for nature connection.This comes about through implementation of inclusive policies and practices and elimination of institutional racism.
What is equity?
This department is integrating more and more nature play in its operations and leading CCCN in many cities.
What is the Parks department?
Spending time in nature can help children focus their attention and boost performance in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies.
What is academic achievement?
An online repository of resources, webinars and videos and access to tools and research to help communicate and implement strategies.
What is the CCCN Resource Hub?
A venue for nature connection with ties to literacy that provide materials, programming, and leadership opportunities for youth to connect with nature in their neighborhoods.
What is a Nature-Smart Library?
Espoused activities of institutions, coalitions, networks, and other entities. Also, within the entity, the procedures, guidelines, or informal shared habits that comprise their work.
What is practices?
These are often the 2nd or 3rd largest landowners in a municipality.
What are School districts?
Access to parks and green spaces fosters more movement and play and reduces the risk of obesity.
What is physical activity?
In-person and virtual consultation to support engagement of mayors or city leaders, engagement of stakeholders, action planning planning, measurement, and capacity building around a specific topic.
What is Technical Assistance and TA visits?
Bringing nature’s benefits to young children, ages 0 – 5, in your city and support other city priorities, such as school readiness, health and wellness, and equity in child development.
What is Early Childhood Nature Connection?
How money, people, knowledge, information, and other assets such as infrastructure are allocated and distributed.
What are resource flows?
These agencies include a growing awareness of the mental and physical benefits of nature.
What is the Health department?
Development of natural spaces and access to these spaces strengthens the ability of human and natural systems to withstand and respond to changes in the earth’s climate.
What is resilience or sustainability?
Strategy-specific calls, facilitated by CCCN staff and supported by subject-matter experts for city leads and partners to share and learn from each other.
What are Peer Learning Calls?
Developing the voice, connection to nature, and engagement in city planning processes for youth ages 16-24.
What is Youth Leadership Development?
The distribution of decision-making power (perceived or real), authority, and both formal and informal influence among individuals and organizations.
What is power dynamics?
Aligning CCCN initiatives with these departments focus on climate resilience such as urban heat island reduction and stormwater capture.
What is the Office of Sustainability?
Meaningful outdoor experiences benefit children and inspire them to love and care for nature.
What is environmental ethos?
An online community hosted by C&NN, which is free and open to anyone interested in connecting children, families and communities to the benefits of nature.
What is Trailhead?
Transforming physical spaces to provide kids with hands-on outdoor fun including boulders, streams, paths, looping trails to get kids moving, exploring, and learning.
What are Nature Play Spaces?
This condition of systems change undergirds the other conditions and when addressed can be the most transformative.
What are attitudes and beliefs?
Engaging this office to align with city priorities and as a key convener of stakeholders.
What is the Mayor’s office?