Outcomes for Nature-based Interventions
Connection to nature supports mental health, wellbeing, resilience, restoration, enhanced mood and can reduce stress, contributing to what for families and youth coping with adversity and trauma.
What is healing?
To focus on breath and mindfulness.
What is meditation?
Facilitating nature connection in the services you lead with children and families is the most direct way to bring the healing power of nature to others. Sample activities include leading an outdoor walk, planting or sitting in a natural area.
What are nature-based interventions?
Installed a storywalk in partnership with a local school.
Who is the Boise, Idaho Field Office (IDFO)?
A public library that provides nature resources, such as backpacks, to get youth and their families outdoors.
What are Nature-smart Libraries?
Experiences in nature help children become more mindful, manage behaviors and reactions, cope with new environments, control impulses and focus attention, contributing to this outcome.
What is self regulation?
Tending the soil and growing edible or native plants.
What is gardening?
The benefits of nature are not limited to the children and families you serve and support. Evidence shows that short, frequent interactions in nature can reduce stress, while creating a sense of calm and perspective. Spending time outdoors will also help to build your comfort level to facilitate nature-based experiences for others and be an advocate for time outdoors.
What is self-care in nature?
Will host a family nature day.
Who is the San Antonio Field Office (SAFO)?
Led by Alex Bailey, a non-profit organization in San Antonio that gets Black youth feeling comfortable and safe in the outdoors through camping, hiking and paddling.
What is Black Outside, Inc?
Nature enhances family connections, communication and parental mental health, contributing to this outcome. Quality outdoor spaces enhance community togetherness and reduce crime, contributing to what in communities.
What is safety in the outdoors?
This book inspired cordage-making with raffia.
What is Braiding Sweetgrass?
Developing and distributing exploration backpacks, nature prescription bottles, or maps to local parks can help build a childs and family's interest and confidence to spend time in nature.
What are family resources?
Met with school district partners to discuss NMT.
Who is the Austin Field Office (AFO)?
A curated, robust set of summaries containing evidence-based research that nature connection with children works to overcome a myriad of society's ills, such as ACEs.
What is the C&NN Research Library and Research Digest?
Family activities in nature improve communication and develop lasting connections and relationships that can help keep children safe in their homes.
What is family connection?
Hook, line and sinker for this near-water activity.
What is fishing?
Aligning and leveraging local resources and city and community initiatives to create thriving communities with nature connection where kids live, learn and play.
What are Communities of Hope and Nature?
Instilled Nature's Corner section in staff newsletter.
Who is the Seattle Field Office (JBPSFO)?
Founded by Denice Rochelle, a non-profit organization in the PNW that helps BIPOC families go camping, backpacking, paddling and learn self-defense in the outdoors.
What is the Bronze Chapter?
Time in nature nurtures a sense of self identity, belonging with others and connection to place, contributing to a sense of stability.
What is permanency?
Using smell, touch, feel, hearing, and sometimes tasting to experience nature.
What is sensory learning/exploration?
A way to build awareness in the field of social services of the benefits of the healing power of nature requires demonstrating success and spreading the word of the opportunity and its impact.
What are conference presentations?
Beautified a local community shelter garden.
Who is the Bay Area Field Office (BAFO)?
The science of Indigenous ways of knowing where traditional skills such as fire-making, horticulture and ethnobotany are used to heal the land and deepen our connection with nature.
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)?