Webinar: People, Parks, and Power

Join us for a webinar to learn about how park equity can advance health equity and racial justice.

Parks and other green spaces are crucial for the health and wellbeing of communities—a fact made even clearer during the pandemic. But not all communities have access to these vital resources. In this free webinar, the authors of Prevention Institute’s new report, Changing the Landscape: People, Parks, and Power, will share how a new approach to achieving park and green space equity can usher in an era in which African American, Latino, and low-income urban communities are fair, just, and green. Participants will also hear an update on the planning of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s new national funding initiative on park and green space equity.

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Speakers:

• Elva Yañez, Director of Health Equity, Prevention Institute
  
• Manal J. Aboelata, Deputy Executive Director, Prevention Institute
  
• Rachel Bennett, Program Manager, Prevention Institute
  
• Alessandro Rigolon, Assistant Professor, University of Utah, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning

On this webinar, participants will learn about how:

• Urban parks and green spaces protect public health, help mitigate the impacts of climate change, and promote environmental justice.
  
• African Americans, Latinos, and people who live in low-income, urban neighborhoods have less access to parks and green spaces than people who live in more affluent or predominantly white communities.[i]
  
• To address green space inequities, we need to change the policies and systems that created such inequities.
  
• Power drives policy and systems change. Investing in community power building is key to achieving green space equity.
  
• Promising policies to advance park and green space equity are being adopted in jurisdictions across the U.S.
  
• Prevention Institute is collaborating with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to plan a new national funding initiative for park and green space equity.

Support for this work was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

*Photo credit: Kounkuey Design Initiative