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A Blueprint for Change: Supporting Healthy Aging Through Parks and Recreation

By Natalia Ospina | Posted on December 6, 2024

NRPA has developed a Healthy Aging Framework to help park and recreation agencies leverage their strengths, relationships and resources to advance systems change approaches that support healthy aging.

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NRPA Offers Strategies for Inclusive Instructor Recruitment in Park and Recreation Programs

By Natalia Ospina | Posted on February 5, 2024

NRPA’s Healthy Aging Team has developed a resource, “Representation Matters: Strategies to Diversify Instructor Recruitment,” with eight strategies agencies can use to diversify instructor recruitment.

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NRPA and RRF Foundation for Aging Join Forces to Empower Healthy Aging Through Parks and Recreation

By Natalia Ospina | Posted on January 31, 2024

NRPA has received $86,000 in grant funding to conduct a research project that will identify promising interventions and scale practices to promote social and intergenerational connectedness.

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