The Toolkit for Health Arts Parks and Equity (HAP-E)

Join The Trust for Public Land (TPL) for an introduction to The Toolkit for Health, Arts, Parks and Equity (HAP-E), a resource created for health, arts and park practitioners. The Toolkit was created in partnership between TPL and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). Built on the goal of advancing health equity, The Toolkit offers a diverse array of practitioners the strategies to build toward health equity using arts and culture and parks and open spaces. It includes guiding principles, case studies and policy recommendations. The presentation series will provide an overview of the relationship between health and parks; an overview of The Toolkit of HAP-E's principles, case studies and policy recommendations; as well as insights and lessons learned from field practice. The following moderated panel will build towards a meaningful conversation and workshop on how to apply The Toolkit in your local context. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the intersection of parks and open spaces, culture and identity, and their synergistic health and well-being outcomes. 
2. Identify opportunities to deploy discrete cross-sectoral methods in placemaking in respective communities for maximum health benefits. 
3. Reflect on the first steps to integrating place-based arts and culture that are responsive to the health crises of COVID-19, climate change and racism.