We all feel it - at a beach, in a field, on a mountain top. Dr. Sonya Jakubec will share lessons from collaborative, community-engaged research and programming the importance of parks and nature for people experiencing cancer, disability, dementia, palliative care, and grief. She highlights the evidence promoting parks and parks prescribing as an intervention within the “Healthy Parks-Healthy People” and “Social Prescribing” movements. Collaboration across health and parks sectors points to practical applications, ideas for implementing parks and nature connections, and recommendations for health and nature innovations. Through rich research discoveries, practical examples, images and stories, Sonya shines the light on ways to fill your own prescription for parks and nature across the lifespan.

Sonya L. Jakubec, RN, BHScN, MN, PhD is a community mental health nurse and researcher based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She studies the interconnection of supportive environments and wellbeing, concentrating on the benefits of inclusion in parks for people of all abilities and ages. She has contributed to several books, articles, opinion pieces, and documentaries.

This program will take place online, via Zoom, on Sunday, September 11th, 2022 at 1 PM EDT. Current paid CDHS members will automatically receive an invite to the meeting via e mail.

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ANY ONE WHO IS NOT A CURRENT PAID MEMBER of CDHS CAN ATTEND. Send an e mail request to: CDHS.Albany@gmail.com several days prior, or Log onto our Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/Capital-District-Humanist-Society/. Click on Join, then on Attend, and use the RSVP function and the link will be available to you.