Category: Best Accessible Places
In this webinar, we hear from Matt Johnson, Coordinator, Open Space Acquisition & Park/Trail Development with Burlington County Parks learning about the park system’s improvements to their facilities and trails, highlighting their focus on inclusion and accessibility for individuals with disabilities.
In this webinar we hear from Peter Dolan, Senior Trail Planner – New York-New Jersey Trail Conference about what makes a trail accessible for the most trail users possible. Topics cover in the webinar include:
About the Trail Conference
• Personal Experience with Accessibility
• Defining “Accessibility”
• Trail Accessibility Legislation
• Connecting Accessibility and Sustainability
• Other Accessible Design Elements
• Call to Action: Don’t Let Perfect be the Enemy of Good
• Resources
In this forum we hear from Matthew von der Hayden Township Administrator / Director of Water & Sewer Utility for the Township of Stafford. Matt discusses the process that the twp. underwent in order to establish and accessible nature trail at the townships Forecastle Basin.
On this week’s Road Trip, some of the team behind the Nature: Accessible for All campaign told News 12 about a growing partnership leading a statewide effort to ensure that all people with disabilities, their families and allies can enjoy New Jersey’s natural places.
The collaborative effort between the Pineland Preservation Alliance, the New Jersey Division of Disability Services of the New Jersey Department of Human Services, the Edward J. Bloustein School and Duke Farms aims to increase the public’s awareness that accessible nature sites exist, to improve the accessibility of trails and natural sites, and to provide more information about these facilities.
Ocean Positive creates programs and opportunities for sustainable positive impacts on the health, well-being, safety and strength of our oceans and communities.
Blue Journey Unified Programs (BJUP) offers adults living with Spinal Cord Injuries, Disorders and Movement Challenges (SCI/D/MC) the opportunities to play, train and compete year around in open water sport disciplines of paddle-boarding, swimming and kayak. The program offers pool training (swimming and prone paddle-boarding) in the winter and open-water prone paddle-boarding, kayak and swimming programming in the summer.
Blue Journey Unified innovative program:
– Brings together a community of adult athletes and professionals in sustainable partnerships
– Provides people with SCI/D/MC the opportunity to train, play or compete alongside non-SCI/D/MC or Challenged friends and family to take part in both adaptive and non-adaptive community aquatic sports events
– Provides an activity that increases flexibility as a result of the unique prone position, sense of balance from the work involved in staying on the board, and endurance, cardiovascular health, strength, and resulting mobility from the regular physical activity.
Measurable goals for BJUP include:
– Increased physical capacity and well-being measured by flexibility, endurance, strength, mobility, and sense of balance
– Increased community participation measured by attendance at or participation in BJUP practice sessions, multi-discipline aquatic events, and other non-aquatic activities with BJUP team members
– Increased Quality of life measured by Spinal Cord Injury–Quality of Life (SCI-QOL)
– Reach out about pop-up paddles and other sessions in some new waters.
Want to host a session in waters closer to your home for a team or community? Contact Ocean Positive via email and they will work with you about setting up sessions.