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The National Park Rx Initiative Zarnaaz Bashir, MPH Director, Health Initiatives www.nrpa.org What are Park Prescriptions? Programs designed in collaboration with healthcare providers and community partners that use parks, trails, and

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The National Park Rx Initiative

Zarnaaz Bashir, MPH Director, Health Initiatives

www.nrpa.org

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What are Park Prescriptions?

“Programs designed in collaboration with healthcare providers and community partners that use parks, trails, and open space to improve individual

and community health.”

  • National Park Prescriptions Steering Committee

www.nrpa.org

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Benefits

  • Connects the healthcare

community and public lands

  • Creates new stewards and

advocates for the environment

  • Connects with nature,

leading to physical, mental, and social benefits

  • It’s fun, easy, convenient,

affordable….

www.nrpa.org

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Physicians are Champions!

  • With our nation’s current epidemic of obesity…

it’s time that we doctors prescribe time outside, in nature, for all our patients.

–Dr. Robert Zarr MD, Pediatrician

  • Clinicians and families know why to be in nature

for health; the issue is how.

–Dr. Nooshin Razani MD, Family Practice

  • Telling people to get out and exercise wasn't

working… Our goal is simple—to transform

  • medicine. We want everyone in the world to have

access to this."

–Dr. David Sabgir MD, Cardiologist

www.nrpa.org

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National Park Rx Steering Committee

Leadership Team National Organizations

– Representing park and recreation professionals, health providers, and nature and environmental champions

Subject-Matter Experts

www.nrpa.org

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Vision

To launch a national agenda for park prescriptions that elevates it from a new concept to a best practice in preventive health.

– Identify standards and themes across programs – Develop resources for program replication – Launch communications strategy – Identify funding sources

www.nrpa.org

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Thank You!

www.nrpa.org

Zarnaaz Bashir, MPH Director, Health Initiatives zbashir@nrpa.org 703-858-4746

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P R ES CR IP TION TR AILS P R OGR AM w w w . p r e s c r i p t i o n t r a i ls n m . o r g

New Mexico Health Care Takes On Diabetes

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Prescription Trails Program

“Get Up and Get Moving”

  • 1. A program designed to give all

health care professionals tools to increase walking/ wheelchair rolling on suggested routes, targeting and promoting healthy lifestyles for individuals and

  • families. (And pets too)
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Audience

Health Care Professionals

 Provide training and

tools to implement the program

 Reasons for the health

care provider communicating this message

 Promote a healthy

environment for all species

Patients

  • Adopt walking as a life

long activity

 Walking is good for most

chronic conditions

 Parks are local and free  Become an advocate for

the environment

 Walk with a friend –

human and canine

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Exam Room Poster – English and Spanish

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Human Prescription in English and Spanish

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Canine Prescription in English and Spanish

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Park Assessment Worksheet

Park assessm ent and evaluation is critical

 Must have a good experience in park – willing to return  Park location – street, parking, and transit  Trail surface , width, and slope >2%, grade >5%  Trails distance, and steps, loops preferred  Shade, benches, and resting areas  Attractions for kids  Public facilities  Signage and lighting  Safety, and visibility  Trail grade definitions

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Walking Guide

Tiguex paths: all Grade 1

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Walking Guide

 1. Inner Loop

 Trail Distance: .3 mile

Difficulty: Grade 1 Steps: 635 Trail Surface: 8 foot wide concrete Grade: Fully accessible to all users; a flat, paved pathway located in or around a park that is suitable for wheelchairs.

 Attractions  Play areas , Basketball courts , Grass fields  Picnic tables

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Get Up And Get Moving!

Charm Lindblad

 clind48535@aol.com  Prescriptiontrailsnm.org

Can we take a walk?

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BETTER TOGETHER: A regional approach to park/health partnerships

Kristin Wheeler

Program Director

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WE NEED EACH OTHER

  • Clinicians are on the frontline of the

current epidemic of chronic diseases

  • Socioeconomic disparities in health

parallel disparities in access to parks

  • Parks play an essential role in public

health

  • Fewer people are spending time
  • utdoors
  • Direct nature experiences lead to

emotional attachment – “sense of place”

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OUR STRATEGY, DEFINED

col·lec·tive im·pact /kəˈlektiv ˈimpakt/ (n): the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem.

(source: SSIR, Winter 2011)

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A ROADMAP TO SUCCESS

  • Identify partners for change
  • Parks – Health – Community
  • Define your scope of work
  • Define your purpose
  • Create boundaries
  • Define terms
  • Set measures
  • Create a roadmap
  • Stay focused
  • Celebrate success

Yes, you will need a lot of post-it notes…

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HEALTHY PARKS HEALTHY PEOPLE: Bay Area

  • 40+ park, health, and

community agencies representing all nine Bay Area counties

  • Formed in 2012 to…
  • Improve the health and

wellbeing of high health need residents through regular use and enjoyment

  • f parks and public lands
  • All programs must be:
  • Welcoming, free, consistent,

culturally relevant, and guided

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WARM HANDOFF & WARM WELCOME

Patient

Rx from Health Provider Fill Rx at HPHP Park Program Park Collects Data Data Shared with Health Provider

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LESSONS LEARNED

  • Health starts outside the clinic

walls

  • Parks are public health

providers

  • Treat the individual and the

community

  • Perfect is the enemy of good
  • Park/Health partnerships

succeed with community input

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THANK YOU & SEE YOU IN THE PARKS!

kwheeler@parksconservancy.org instituteatgoldengate.org