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Outdoor Spaces & Buildings
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New Report Highlights How Neighborhoods Affect How You Age
A growing body of research shows that living in disadvantaged neighborhoods—characterized by high poverty—is associated with weak social ties, problems accessing health care and other services, reduced physical activity, health problems, mobility limitations, and high stress. It is not only the economic characteristics of neighborhoods that affect health—but also aspects of the physical or “built” environment that promote walkability and foster interaction. Certain neighborhoods that are less accessible are particularly challenging for older adults with disabilities. Click below to see an info on how Neighborhood Features Play a Role in Healthy Aging in Place
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Webinar: Advancing Neighborhood Change Through Equity and Inclusion - March 21
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Walkability is at the cornerstone of creating neighborhoods that are vital and vibrant, allowing all members of a community to enjoy health, social and economic benefits in a variety of forms. How do we create neighborhoods where change and new development can happen along with the protection and promotion of a community's identity and culture? Join America Walks as they share some of our recent work on the issues of gentrification and displacement and hear from three people working with and in communities around the US who are tackling this challenge. Click here to learn more or register.
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Growing Our Tree Canopy Through Research Driven Solutions
Trees and tree canopies are also an important part of a community and neighborhood. The premier exchange on trees in Miami-Dade featuring best practices from green cities, highlights from the Miami-Dade Urban Tree Canopy Assessment, insights on achieving Tree City/Tree Campus USA, tips on how to get trees to thrive, cutting edge research on the value of trees in Miami, Crown Canopy Award winner and the unveiling of the County’s online tree canopy tool. Elected Officials, Planners, Landscape Architects, Public Works, City Administrators, Educators, Arborists, Advocates, Community Leaders and members of public are welcomed! Click here to learn more or register.
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Webinar: Using Shared Use to Promote Physical Activity - March 29
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Join America Walks for a training on "Using Shared Use Agreements to Promote Physical Activity" on March 29th at 2pm EST. This highly interactive training will include a briefing and overview on the concept of Shared Use Agreements as well as breakout sessions with local communities who have put the practice to use in creating healthy, active, and livable communities. Attendees will have an opportunity to learn from experts, share their own ideas of how this could be used, and get the tools and resources needed to start the process in their own communities. Click here to learn more or register.
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AGE-FRIENDLY OUTDOOR SPACES & BUILDINGS RESOURCES
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Safe Routes to Parks Action Framework
As outlined in our Parks Workshop last year, ensuring safe access to outdoor spaces is key to providing livable, age-friendly communities. But not all communities are equipped with the resources needed to provide safe access to parks, such as investing in new sidewalks and crosswalks with personal safety improvements. A new Safe Routes to Parks Action Framework developed by the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) in collaboration with the Safe Routes to School National Partnership provides evidence- and practice-based guidance to help local park and recreation agencies implement policies and practices that create safe and equitable access to parks for all people. It is a good resource to complement our Miami-Dade's Age-Friendly Parks Toolkit. Adults living within a half-mile of a park visit parks and exercise more often. Proximity to parks is consistently related to better physical and mental health. Yet communities with the highest levels of obesity and lowest levels of physical activity have the least safe access to parks. Safe access to parks is a right and a necessity for healthy communities.
Click here to learn more and view the framework
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Active Design Miami
Active Design Miami is a set of policy and design strategies for creating healthier streets, open spaces, and buildings. Active Design Miami was inspired by New York's Active Design Guidelines, developed almost 10 years ago through a broad collaboration between numerous departments, agencies, and organizations. In 2015, The Miami Center for Architecture & Design (MCAD) begun the work of developing Active Design Miami as part of a contract with the Florida Department of Health, funded through the Centers for Disease Control. In September 2016, MCAD, in collaboration with numerous community, institutional, and civic partners, completed the first edition of Active Design Miami. A total of sixty-nine (69) strategies cover four focus areas: Parks & Open Spaces, Development Patterns, Transportation & Mobility, and Buildings. These guidelines are important because they can help identify strategies to address the needs of all ages and abilities in planning environments and opportunities for people to be active and healthy in their communities.
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BIG NEWS! MIAMI-DADE JOINS GLOBAL NETWORK
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Miami-Dade County was recently accepted into the AARP & WHO Network of Age-Friendly Communities becoming the 5th largest community in the United States to commit to working toward becoming an age-friendly place to grow up and grow old!
Click here to read more from the Miami Herald
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