Category: Communications and Outreach
Final Days to Share Your Input!
Disability Rights NJ has released a public notice for a Public Input Survey. Tell them What Disability-Related Issues Are Most Important To You and Your Family? This input will guide their 2027 Priority Setting Initiative and issues that matter most to you are reflected in their goals and objectives.
Deadline Extended!!
Surveys will be accepted until Thursday, June 18, 2026.
On average, the survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete.
You can download a PDF version – Survey PDF and send it to their office at 210 South Broad Street, Third Floor, Trenton NJ 08608.
As the summer progresses keep an eye out for our partners at Ocean Positive and Ocean County Parks as they will be returning in July to Cattus Island County Park for a Paddle Session.
Ocean Positive offers water-based recreation for individuals with mobility disabilities and spinal cord injuries. Participants are required to register for events.
Keep an eye out by visiting their website – Here
Blue Journey Unified is offering several opportunities for community engagement, and recreation with their inclusive open water programs for individuals with mobility and spinal cord disabilities.
Register and check out the list of events – here
Access for All was a four-part series sharing practical strategies and case studies to improve accessibility and inclusion in outdoor recreation. Attendees were able to learn actionable approaches to expand participation, reduce barriers, and create more welcoming trails, parks, and programs for all.
These recordings are available if you were not able to attend live. Society of Outdoor Professionals webinar recordings are available to all for the first six months before they become a member-only resource. The recording access also has presentations, other resources, as well as how to earn continuing education credits.
Check the link for resources – Webinar Recordings
Join the Spina Bifida Resource Network for their interactive series by and for adults with disabilities — featuring adults with disabilities as speakers, experts and discussion leaders.
This webinar is apart of their Empowered Conversations Virtual Speaker Series for Adults with Disabilities 21+
Wednesdays at 7:00 pm ET on Zoom
Link to register – Spina Bifida Resource Network – Speaker Series
Last Tuesday, May 5th our partners over at Ocean Positive headed way inland to join 18 members of the NJ School of Conservation team for an inspiring training session talking about safe, inclusive outdoor recreation that builds communities and inspires others to care about the places we love from the ocean to the mountains.
This was done in conjunction with Pinelands Alliance’s – Nature Accessible for All campaign.
Ocean Positive was on the campus of NJ SOC for a Safe & Positive for All training — and what was supposed to be a 90-minute session turned into a genuine conversation about what it means to ensure that everyone who immerses themselves in nature can have a lifetime of safe and positive experiences.
What happens when you put 18 outdoor educators in a room and ask them to think about who might not feel safe or welcome in the spaces they steward? The staff at NJSOC, soon found out.
Educators. Field staff. People who spend their lives helping others connect with the natural world. They shared their inspiration and insight that makes this work matter.
By training the trainers, these best practices don’t stop with the 18 people in that room. They have the potential to reach the nearly 4,000 people who visit NJSOC each year for programs and field experiences — many of whom may be living with spinal cord injuries, movement and sensory limitations, or neurological differences that standard wilderness safety training too often overlooks.
The NJSOC team doesn’t just teach conservation — they live it. Making sure their programs are accessible and empowering for everyone is a natural extension of that mission.
Grateful to Kerry, Tanya, and the entire NJSOC team for having us. Nature is for everyone. Making that true in practice — not just in principle — takes training, intention, and teams like this one.