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IPRA, PlayCore and GameTime are aligning resources to promote best practices in parks and recreation & provide quality education for professionals in Illinois.
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OPRA, PlayCore and GameTime are aligning resources to promote best practices in parks and recreation and provide quality education for professionals in Ohio.
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PlayCore has joined forces with the Children & Nature Network to raise awareness and help scale the implementation of green schoolyards.
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We are excited to be releasing two new program updates on dog parks and surfacing.
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One in three Americans doesn’t have a park or green space within a 10-minute walk of home.
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To create an interest in nature-play in children as young as 18 months old, Brian Fitzgerald and his wife launched the Tinkergarten in 2015.
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To continue to draw awareness to the impact of the outdoors on individual health, doctors across the country are issuing park prescriptions to their patients.
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This Saturday, May 20th, marks the 7th Annual Kids to Parks Day.
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In Celebration of the Hoosier Bicentennial, the Children of Indiana Nature Park was created by the Nature Conservancy in Centerville, IN.