Research to Practice: Maximizing Child Outcomes in the Outdoors
NLI Research to Practice: Maximizing Child Outcomes in the Outdoors Early Head Start Reconnecting children to nature and maximizing children’s learning and development for improved child outcomes. Program During a time when expectations are clear that high quality...
Growing IN Place Symposium 2010
NLI Growing IN Place Symposium 2010 Sustainable Urban Design for Children & Families Urban landscape planning and design policies needed to facilitate independent mobility of children. Strategies for managing pedestrian and bicycle routes and the quality of the...
7th Annual NLI Design Institute
NLI 7th Annual NLI Design Institute Natural Play Environments: Designing, Building, and Programming Think back to when you were a child… It is likely some of your fondest memories are of the outdoors. Do you still remember what you used to do outside? Do you...
Playwork IN Nature Training 2009
NLI Playwork IN Nature Training 2009 Playwork IN Nature Training Program The Playwork IN Nature Training Program trained individuals in basic playwork approaches for working with children in institutional and public settings where engagement with nature is the primary...
Growing IN Place Symposium 2009
NLI Growing IN Place Symposium 2009 The restricted life of children is negatively impacting their healthy development. Children are not allowed to venture out into streets and parks alone, even with their friends as previous generations did. How can the urban public...
6th Annual NLI Design Institute
NLI 6th Annual NLI Design Institute Design for Children IN Nature Focusing on the importance of contact with nature, design implications, and innovative solutions that help participants take information and new skills back home to change their spaces. Program The...
Growing IN Place Symposium 2008
NLI Growing IN Place Symposium 2008 How can urban planning and design support active use of the public realm by children and families? The restricted life of children is having an increasingly negative impact on their healthy development. Many children are not allowed...
5th Annual NLI Design Institute
NLI 5th Annual NLI Design Institute Design for Children IN Nature The Natural Learning Initiative, a unit of North Carolina State University, is committed to promoting the importance of the natural environment in the daily experience of all children and families,...
4th Annual NLI Design Institute
NLI 4th Annual NLI Design Institute Design for Children IN Nature Regardless of children’s abilities, nature has a positive impact on well-being and helps children acquire harmonious, healthy lifestyles. Well-being is achieved through a delicate balance between...
3rd Annual NLI Design Institute
NLI 3rd Annual NLI Design Institute Design For Active Childhoods II The goal of Design for Active Childhoods is to raise awareness about the role of the physical environment for healthy development and children’s active living. Program Think back to when you were...
2nd Annual NLI Design Institute
NLI 2nd Annual NLI Design Institute Design For Active Childhoods The goal of Design for Active Childhoods is to help designers, recreation professionals, and educators bring back the richness of the outdoors as a resource for education and healthy child development....
