Engage city leaders, residents, youth, and key partners
Who are stakeholders?
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 racial equity?
Increase and improve nature access and infrastructure by 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?
Learning in nature can support improved relationship skills, and reduce stress, anger, and aggression.
What is social emotional wellbeing?
Engage community members/Garner input from community members
What is community engagement?
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?
Improve conditions for community wellness within a city through 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 are Green Schoolyards?
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?
Convene agency leaders and partners
Who are mayors?
The allocation and distribution of money, people, knowledge, information, and other assets such as infrastructure to create change.
What are resource flows?
Increase time, number, and quality of experiences in nature for 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?
Access to parks and green spaces fosters more movement and play and reduces the risk of obesity.
What is physical activity/well being?
Build public will
What is public will?
The distribution of decision-making power (perceived or real), authority, and both formal and informal influence among individuals and organizations.
What is power dynamics?
Elevate nature connections as a priority through partnership across multiple city departments to provide programming for youth to connect with nature at these community information hubs within neighborhoods.
What is a Nature-Smart Library?
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?
Guide vision and strategy
What is a vision?
This condition of systems change undergirds the other conditions and when addressed can be the most transformative.
What are attitudes and beliefs?
Developing the voice, connection to nature, and engagement in city planning processes for youth ages 16-24.
What is Youth Leadership Development?
Meaningful outdoor experiences benefit children and inspire them to love and care for nature.
What is environmental ethos?