Features

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Accessible Recruitment

Learn how to make sure your aquatics workforce reflects people of different backgrounds and abilities.

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Strategic Criteria in Aquatics Facility Design

Explore the principles of successful aquatics facility design.

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Additional Articles

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Diving Into Aquatics Center Success

Despite the challenge, aquatics centers are a critical piece to the quality-of-life puzzle in any city.

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Starting a Successful Adaptive Swim Program

Gwinnett County (Georgia) Parks and Recreation developed an adaptive swim program that offers inclusive parent-assisted classes regularly.

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Aquatics Staff and Facility Auditing

Aquatics operational auditing is an essential part of a comprehensive aquatics program.

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Best Practices in Aquatics Facility Management

Consider some of the following best proven practices in managing aquatics facilities, whether they be a pool or waterfront.

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Water Safety

Learn how innovation and education have enhanced aquatics management practices.

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Youth Sports Survey Shows the Need to Get More Girls in the Game

NRPA and Nike are partnering to improve girls’ sports participation.

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People Visit Parks and Recreation for Myriad Reasons

Discover the many reasons people visit their local parks and recreation facilities.

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The Push for Realistic In-Service Training

While you will never fully know how staff will react and respond in an emergency, providing the most realistic in-service scenarios can best prepare them.

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Social-Emotional Learning to Strengthen Cudahy Community

Cudahy (Wisconsin) Recreation Department is training staff and volunteers in social-emotional learning with a focus on experience and connectedness.

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Creating Space for Support

Park and recreation professionals can ease parents’ fears about disclosing their children’s disabilities by making disclosure safe and routine.

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Connecting Community to Nature in Detroit

City of Detroit worked alongside community partner organizations to develop pocket parks around the city to invite residents into nature.

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Transforming Mesa’s Special Recreation Programs With ePACT

City of Mesa, Arizona, streamlined its parks, recreation and community facilities department's adaptive recreation operations by adopting ePACT Network.

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From Canvas to Conservation

A childhood interest grew into the opportunity of a lifetime when Montgomery Parks’ (Maryland) operations manager — and unofficial waterfowl afficionado — Jennifer Scully was invited to judge the 2024 Federal Duck Stamp Contest, an art competition hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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