Resources

Resources for Park and Recreation Professionals

With help from our members and research partners, we make the following resources and tools available to equip parks and recreation departments, municipalities, urban design and landscape architecture firms, and advocacy organizations to enhance capacity and build equitable, healthy, and engaged communities.

Technical Tool
Park Sign: Be Smart Stay 6 Feet Apart
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
Signs explaining rules to observe during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Policy
Executive Summary: COVID-19 Emergency Childcare Operation for Health Care Workers, First Responders, and Low-Income Working Families
San Francisco Recreation and Parks
Policy that focuses on emergency childcare, including creating a curriculum for youth experiencing anxiety and stress related to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Policy
COVID-19 Response Plan
Seattle Parks & Recreation
Lays out preparations for Seattle Parks & Rec to coordinate with city agencies to provide essential services during a pandemic.
Technical Tool
Closed/No Social Gathering Park Signs
San Francisco Recreation and Parks
These physical signs dictate park closures and advise on social gathering best practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Member Exclusive
Plan
Pittsburgh Parks Plan
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
Part of a suite of tools developed by PIttsburgh Parks Conservancy for Pittsburgh Parks in maintenance, rehabilitation, capital, programming.
Member Exclusive
Technical Tool
Benefits of Pittsburgh Parks System
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
Part of a suite of tools developed by PIttsburgh Parks Conservancy (PPC). PPC analyzed the plan and developed the benefits case for the investments.
Member Exclusive
Technical Tool
10 Steps to Becoming Partners in Neighborhood Parks
Providence Parks and Recreation
This manual serves as a framework for creating a friends group that can partner with your city or town to create the park of your dreams.
Member Exclusive
Technical Tool
Friends of the Park Handbook
Ellen Bruenderman
A guide to forming a "Friends of the Park" group and helpful tips and resources for how to reach your group's goals.
Member Exclusive
Technical Tool
Park People Sparking Change
Park People
Explores impacts in under-served neighborhoods to spark change in local parks; identifies strategies by community members and partner organizations.
Member Exclusive
Plan
Austin’s Cities Connecting Children to Nature
Outlines partnership strategies and steps for cross-sector planning to ensure all children have abundant and equitable access to nature.