A webinar with Rosa Yin, a student at the University of Texas in Public Policy

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Policies, especially local and state, have great influence over our day to day lives. To understand the specific influences policies play in a particular topic area, policy scans are useful tools for developing thorough understandings. This presentation's policy scan analyzed the City of Austin's municipal policies and programs to...

A webinar with Alleigh Stewart with Harris County Public Health

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OLE! Texas is a statewide initiative that is organized by Texas Department of State Health Services Obesity Prevention Program. Team member organizations’ and local chapter organizing agencies work within their own organization and collaboratively to advance resources and support for ECEs to implement quality outdoor spaces.

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A webinar with Liz Houston with National Wildlife Federation

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Before the pandemic, young children already faced high rates of obesity, more time indoors and on screens, limited physical activity, compromised emotional health, and a detachment from the natural world. Social inequities and institutional racism intensify these issues for Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other children of color, and children in low-income...

A webinar with Melissa Felty with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

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Outdoor learning environments encourage diversity of children’s play experience and contribute to healthy development. Plants offers a variety of experiences and discoveries by stimulating their senses, providing loose parts for creative play, and encouraging children to crawl, jump, and tunnel as they connect to the natural cycles around...