Featured Opportunity: National Kids to Parks Day

Children, families, cities, towns, counties and parks are gearing up for this year’s National Kids to Parks Day, a nation-wide day of outdoor play organized by the National Park Trust in cooperation with a host of national collaborators. This year’s Kids to Parks Day will be held on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

As a local elected official or city, town or county staff, you have an important role to empower kids and encourage families to get outdoors and visit America’s parks. You can support Kids to Parks Day by issuing a proclamation (over 200 local elected officials have done so already!) or organizing activities, clean-up projects or educational opportunities in your local parks. Many of these activities align closely with Goal V: Active Kids at Play, which encourages local elected officials to increase physical activity by committing to mapping local playspaces, completing a needs assessment, developing an action plan, and launching a minimum of three proven policies, programs or initiatives aimed at increasing access to play. You could use National Kids to Parks Day as a way to kick off your Goal V activities or announce your participation as an LMCTC site.

To learn about sample activities that your community can hold as a part of National Kids to Parks Day, click here. To view a sample proclamation, click here. To view all resources available to support National Kids to Parks Day, click here.