Outdoor Tech for Good
2025-11-13 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MN
Learn how AllTrails is providing free data insight tools for public land managers and park partners to inclusive outdoor nonprofits.
Presented by:
Cece Kirkwood, Impact Program Manager, Partnerships & Giving, AllTrails
John Ribes, Impact Program Manager, AllTrails
Pitt Grewe, Head of Public Land Partnerships, AllTrails

Understanding Trail Aggregates: Foundation for Performance
2025-11-20 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MN
Join American Trails as they host this discussion on using stone aggregates for trail surfaces. Lay the groundwork by explaining the basics of aggregates, the range of material options available, and why material selection matters. Trail uses include both pedestrian and vehicular pathways in rural and urban settings.
Presented by:
Tiffany Koss, President, Kafka Granite, LLC

The Power of Visibility and Community Advocacy
2025-12-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | MN
Join us and discover practical strategies to amplify your impact.
Don’t miss the final session in our Human Experience of Black People with Disabilities and Their Rights Under the ADA series featuring Elizabeth Booker Houston, a lawyer, social scientist, professor, standup comedienne, and political commentator.
This webinar will explore how embracing visibility can combat the intersectional discrimination faced by Black disabled individuals. We’ll discuss how sharing your authentic experiences can spark important conversations, foster understanding, and drive social change within your communities.
To learn more about the Human Experience of Black People with Disabilities webinar series, visit the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center’s Research webpage.

Access Nature Forum - Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization
2025-12-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | MN
Join us on December 3rd at 1:00 PM Via Zoom.
Join us for a discussion with MEVO (Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization) Inc., which was a recipient of PPA’s stipend project. MEVO was able to welcome in an existing partner, the Bergen County Department of Adult Special Services (BCASS), to their farm to volunteer at a high frequency. BCASS had been volunteering with MEVO previously, but due to limited staff on MEVO’s end, they were not able to welcome them as frequently as they liked. The stipend from the Pinelands Preservation Alliance afforded them the ability to welcome BCASS anywhere from 2-4 times a month from April to September.
BCASS brought groups of anywhere from 5-15 adults on a given visit, where they stayed for an hour each time. MEVO emphasized sensory experiences that would allow the clients to connect with the farm and the outdoors while they came to visit. Every visit started with a sensory farm tour where the groups could touch, taste, see, and smell what was going on at the farm. Since they camefrequently, they got to witness the farm changing from spring to summer, to fall, through their senses. While at the farm, clients helped with tasks such as weeding, lining the perennial and herb beds with a rock border, laying down mulch, and more. MEVO focused on tasks that fit the range of abilities for the group on the given day. If clients were more excited to tour and experience the farm that day, they would spend all the time of their visit happily on that.
About MEVO: The Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit located in Mahwah, New Jersey, whose mission is to be the model for the creation of scalable ecological solutions that inspires and empowers people to take action for a better future. MEVO engages its community in boots on the ground and hands-in-the-dirt volunteer projects that range from working on our two market garden farms, assisting in large-scale trash cleanups on Stag Hill in Mahwah, and trail building in partnership with the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. MEVO’s other programs include their Farm to School Program, spring, summer, and fall internship opportunities, and their Community Supported Agriculture Program. To learn more about MEVO and their volunteer opportunities, you can visit mevo.org

Wapalanne Women's Wellness Weekend
2025-12-05 - 2025-12-07 | New Jersey School of Conservation, 1 Wapalanne Rd, Sandyston,, NJ, 07826, United States
Join the New Jersey School of Conservation for Wapalanne Women’s Wellness Weekend!
Take time to step away from the noise of daily life and immerse yourself in a weekend of rest, renewal, and connection with nature and with yourself.
From December 5th-7th, the Wapalanne Women’s Wellness Weekend will bring together women of all ages for a nurturing retreat focused on mind, body, and spirit wellbeing.
What to Expect:
• Guided yoga, meditation, and breathwork sessions to help you slow down and center.
• Nature walks, forest bathing, and outdoor reflection in our beautiful forest setting.
• Workshops on holistic health, art, mindfulness, and self-care led by experienced facilitators.
• Community meals, journaling, and meaningful conversation to foster connection and renewal.
Whether you’re seeking calm, clarity, or simply a weekend to focus on you, this experience is designed to restore your balance and remind you of the beauty within and around you.

Great Lakes ADA Center Art, Culture, and Recreation Accessibility
2025-12-11 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | MN
Join the Great Lakes ADA Center for this webinar on accessibility.
Arts, culture, and civic spaces are vibrant community anchors, but accessibility needs in these venues are often complex and unique. Many organizations want to understand their ADA obligations but lack tools tailored for theaters, museums, historic sites, and public spaces. This session introduces the Arts & Culture Accessibility Hub’s free tools to understand ADA requirements, plus a clear cycle—assess, plan, connect, learn, implement—to turn intention into action. Participants will leave with practical steps to meet compliance and strengthen accessibility beyond the ADA.
Individuals will be able to submit questions for the speaker in advance during the registration process.
Human Generated Real-Time Captioning will be provided for this session.

Ready, Set, Access: Planning to Bridge the Digital Divide
2025-12-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | MN
Join the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center as they explore practices that support assessment, organization, remediation, and the creation of user-friendly digital content that facilitates community engagement. Many state and local government agencies are gearing up for the upcoming effective dates of the new ADA Title II rule on website and mobile app accessibility.
This webinar will NOT focus on the technical specifications for making digital content accessible, but rather on strategies agencies can use to approach this process to maximize effectiveness and efficiency.

Blue Journey Unified Pool Swims - December 2025
2025-12-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Ocean City Aquatics and Fitness Center, 1735 Simpson Ave, Ocean City, NJ, 08226, United States
Join Blue Journey Unified at the OC Aquatics Center’s warm, saltwater pool for there last winter pool session. Their goals are building community, fitness, water-confidence and friendships throughout the Fall, and this may become your most inspiring and motivating training session of any week.

Session Summary
Coached & Supported Sessions
Water Confidence
Prone Paddling
Swimming
Water Fitness and Strength for those with spinal cord injuries or physical movement challenges
Thursday evenings from 7:00 – 8:00 PM at the Ocean City Aquatics and Fitness Center from December 4 – 18.

Aggregate Trail Surfacing: From Fundamentals to Field Application
2026-01-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | MN
This webinar goes beyond materials and layering to explore how design, construction, and real-time field decisions shape long-term durability.
Presented by:
Jedediah (Jed) Talbot, Owner, OBP Trailworks, LLC
Erin Amadon, Owner, Town 4 Trail Services LLC
This live webinar is free.
Would you consider a donation to support this webinar?
Webinar Outline
This aggregates 2.0 webinar is a follow up to the Fundamentals of Aggregate Surface Trails webinar held on December 5, 2024.
Level up from basic installation to high-performance results. This session goes beyond materials and layering to explore how design, construction, and real-time field decisions shape long-term durability. Participants will learn how to optimize gradation and matrix selection for varying site conditions, stabilize subgrades with geotextiles, and achieve proper compaction through the right balance of moisture, lift thickness, and equipment. The session also covers planning a drainage-first construction sequence to minimize failures, troubleshooting common issues like rutting and washouts, and adapting methods for accessibility, remote locations, and changing seasonal conditions. Designed for practitioners who already understand the basics and are ready to deliver durable, consistent, and professional-quality aggregate trail surfaces.
Learning Objectives:
– Specify gradation, fabric, lift thickness, equipment, and moisture targets to meet performance requirements.
– Build a drainage-first construction sequence that protects lifts, preserves sheet flow, and minimizes failures.
– Diagnose common failure modes and high-durability remediation strategies.
– Establish a practical QA/QC checklist, including on-site gradation/compaction cues, post-storm inspections, and resurfacing triggers.

2026 - BLUE JOURNEY UNIFIED THURSDAY POOL SESSIONS !
2026-01-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-01-22 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-01-29 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Ocean City Aquatics and Fitness Center, 1735 Simpson Ave, Ocean City, NJ, 08226, United States
DIVE INTO THE WARMEST COMMUNITY WE KNOW TO START 2026 – BLUE JOURNEY UNIFIED THURSDAY POOL SESSIONS !
Join Blue Journey Unified the Ocean City Aquatics Center’s warm, saltwater pool and and be active in building community, fitness, water-confidence and friendships.
Session Summary
Coached & Supported Sessions
Water Confidence
Prone Paddling
Swimming
Water Fitness and Strength for those with spinal cord injuries or physical movement challenges
Thursday evenings from 7:00 – 8:00 PM at the Ocean City Aquatics and Fitness Center from JANUARY 8 – FEBRUARY 26. {NOTE: NO SESSION JANUARY 15}
Advanced registration required.
PLEASE – Adult Athletes wishing to take part for the first time should contact Bruckner via voice, text or e-mail for more information before signing up.
ALWAYS FREE for Adult Participants with SCI/D or Movement Challenges

IHC - Models of Disability Webinar
2026-01-13 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | MN
Understanding models of disability gives us a shared lens for how we interpret need, responsibility, and possibility in disability, aging, health, and social services work. The model we default to, often without realizing it, shapes whether we focus primarily on “fixing” individuals to fit into established structures or on redesigning environments, systems, and policies that create barriers for anyone who does things a little bit differently than the “typical” user. When community leaders understand multiple models, they are better equipped to question assumptions, broaden solutions, and recognize how well-intentioned programs can still exclude people if they are built on narrow, traditional (and often medicalized) definitions of disability. This awareness supports more inclusive planning, more effective use of resources, and stronger outcomes by shifting attention toward how our systems can be improved to promote the participation, contribution, and full inclusion of everyone, especially people with disabilities.
Join Rebecca Martin, Rutgers Bloustein School in this webinar offered by The Inclusive Healthy Communities program.

Accessing Assistive Technology Through Schools, VR, Medicaid & Medicare
2026-01-13 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | MN
Join Disability Rights NJ staff as they share important resources available to access essential assistive technology. Assistive technology (AT) plays a pivotal role for many children and adults with disabilities. This webinar provides resources to secure the necessary AT devices and services through school districts, VR, Medicaid and Medicare to support education, employment and foster community living.

Designing Events that Engage Your Community in 2026
2026-01-15 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MN
Join American Trails in this webinar that explores the ins and outs of planning events that engage, inspire, and activate your community.
Presented by:
Suzanne Matyas, Social Media and Engagement Strategist, Rails to Trails Conservancy
Brandi Horton, Vice President of Communications, Rails to Trails Conservancy

Blue Journey Unified - First pool session of 2026
2026-01-15 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Join Blue JourneyUnified for their first session of 2026 on January 15. This event is in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University. These are open to everyone, but space is limited.
The focus in January is teaching TJU students about inclusive, outdoor aquatic recreation and sports. As the semester progresses Blue Journey will focus on helping those in the Philly area develop a new level of water confidence, skill and fitness so that we can hit the open waters throughout the area in the summer.

Travel & Tourism for All: Best Practices & Trends for Customers with Disabilities
2026-01-21 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | MN
People with disabilities in the US spend billions of dollars annually on travel, but many report having issues related to their accessibility needs. What types of issues are travelers with disabilities facing and how do we make them feel more welcomed?
Join Craig Kennedy, Program Coordinator and Trainer with the Open Doors Organization, for an informative webinar on best practices for making businesses more accessible, as well current trends for travelers with disabilities.
Craig is a leading expert, with more than 20 years of experience, in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA). He spends most of his time on the road for Open Doors, training disability experts for airports and airlines all over the world. Craig’s love for travel drives his passion for disability work and he brings an infectious positive attitude with him wherever he goes in hopes of affecting positive change and bringing improved access to the world of disabilities.

Choosing the Right Aggregate: Matching Material to Trail Use and Terrain
2026-01-22 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MN
Join American Trails in this discussion on tips for identifing appropriate aggregate for your trail and site improvements. This talk will help attendees evaluate site conditions and user needs to select the most appropriate material—reinforcing your team’s technical expertise and the value of well-engineered materials. Trail uses include both pedestrian and vehicular pathways in rural and urban settings.
Presented by:
Tiffany Koss, President, Kafka Granite, LLC

Ability Walk - Get Out There with Acquired Brain Injury
2026-01-26 13:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Rancocas State Park, 794 Rancocas Rd, Westampton Township, NJ, 08060, United States
Join GOT ABI (Get Out There with Acquired Brain Injury) a partner of the Nature Accessible for All Campaign and discover the trails of South Jersey. GOT ABI meets at different trails each month. Weather permitting so check their facebook and instagram for updates before you leave home.

IHC - Grantee Event: Transform Your Financial Future: A Webinar Series for People with Disabilities in New Jersey
2026-01-28 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | MN
Various Dates
Hosted by: The National Disability Institute
Join subject matter experts to gain practical strategies that support financial inclusion and economic stability.
National Disability Institute, supported by the New Jersey Inclusive Healthy Communities (NJ-IHC) project, is hosting a four-part webinar series for people with disabilities, their families, and community partners across New Jersey.
Each session focuses on essential topics, including the foundations of financial empowerment, navigating Social Security benefits, and managing the extra costs of disability.

Pressure Treated Wood for Trail Structures
2026-01-29 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MN
Join American Trails as they host this webinar which will discuss the proper understanding of treated wood and construction details for trails.
Presented by:
Robert Fina, Owner, Fina Trails LLC

Outdoor Adventures for All: Accessible Outdoor Developed Areas
2026-02-05 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | MN
Join the U.S. Access Board and the National Park Service for a collaborative webinar on outdoor developed areas. This presentation will highlight provisions in the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) Accessibility Standards that pertain to making camping facilities, picnic facilities and viewing areas accessible for people with disabilities. Accessible design scenarios implemented by the National Park Service will be discussed as well as operational challenges and best practices.
Participants can ask questions in advance during the registration process as well as ask questions during the live session.
Real-Time Captioning and Sign Language Interpretation will be provided.

IMBA’s Trail Development Process: Building Community-Driven Trails
2026-02-12 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | MN
International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) experts will guide you through an overview of the seven critical steps of the Trail Development Process, from initial access and community engagement to long-term stewardship.
Presented by:
Mary Monroe Brown, VP of Programs, International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA)
Webinar Outline
Building great trails requires more than just digging in the dirt. It demands a proven process that unites communities, secures resources, and ensures lasting results. In this webinar, IMBA experts will guide you through an overview of the seven critical steps of the Trail Development Process, from initial access and community engagement to long-term stewardship. You will learn about the benefits of a structured process, how to secure land access and funding, and effective community engagement strategies. We’ll conclude by looking at a real-world case study to show how these steps come together to create successful and sustainable trails, providing you with a starting point for your own projects.
Learning Objectives:
Explain the purpose and value of a structured trail development process for ensuring long-term project success.
Identify the seven key steps of IMBA’s Trail Development Process.
Recognize the key considerations and challenges associated with each step of the process as demonstrated in a real-world case study.

15th Annual New Jersey Bike & Walk Summit
2026-03-07 | MN
Join NJ Bike, Walk Coalition at the 15th Annual New Jersey Bike & Walk Summit, taking place on Saturday, March 7 in Princeton!
Early Bird Registration & Sponsorship Information is Now Available!
Spend the day with advocates, planners, and community leaders from across the state for learning, connection, and inspiration. Visit the Summit Hub to register, explore sponsorship opportunities, and submit a session proposal. Early support helps make the Summit possible and keeps rates at their best.

Building Access from the Ground Up: A Roadmap for Outdoor Recreation Communities
2026-03-10 13:30 - 2026-03-31 15:00 (America/New_York) | MN
All over the country, communities are investing in accessible outdoor recreation — from Oregon’s statewide accessible recreation initiative to accessible state park lodging in Arkansas to new all-abilities trails, launches, and parks in small towns across the nation. Accessibility is fast becoming central to quality outdoor recreation, community pride, and visitor appeal.
Building Access from the Ground Up helps rural and small communities learn from this growing movement — gaining inspiration from real examples, adapting what works, and innovating to meet local needs. You’ll explore what accessibility means in outdoor settings, how to assess where you are now, and how to plan, design, and operate accessible recreation infrastructure and experiences. You’ll also learn how to prepare your community — from front-line workers to local businesses and volunteers — to welcome visitors of all abilities with confidence and care.
As with all Harbinger courses, Building Access from the Ground Up emphasizes practical tools and peer learning. Participants share ideas and lessons learned with others facing similar opportunities and constraints, building a network of peers and allies in accessible outdoor recreation. Through real-world examples, self-assessment tools, and frameworks for turning insight into progress, you’ll leave with an action plan for your own community — focused on realistic next steps that expand access, strengthen tourism, and open the outdoors to all.
What You’ll Learn
How accessible outdoor recreation connects to community, economic, and tourism development goals
What’s happening in the U.S. and Canada in accessible outdoor recreation — and how your community can join the movement
How to assess your current level of accessibility using practical self-audit tools
Design principles and adaptive equipment options for accessible trails, launches, and recreation sites
How to develop accessible programs, tours, and visitor experiences
Strategies for preparing frontline workers, businesses, and guides to welcome all visitors
How to communicate accessibility information clearly and accurately
Strategies for collective planning with residents of all abilities
Tools for measuring progress and sustaining momentum over time

There will be Four 90-minute VIDEO CONFERENCE SESSIONS. All held on Tuesdays, March 10-31, 2026 • 10:30-12 PT/1:30-3 PM ET

Bridges and Boardwalks: Planning, Design, and Construction
2026-03-12 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | MN
This session explores the full lifecycle of trail crossings— from planning and design through on-the-ground construction.
Presented by:
Aaron Steele, President & Executive Project Manager, Tailored Trails
Webinar Outline
From simple puncheons to complex engineered crossings, bridges and boardwalks play a critical role in creating safe, sustainable, and accessible trail experiences. This session explores the full lifecycle of these structures— from planning and design through on-the-ground construction. Aaron will examine different trail and structure types, site considerations, and material options, while exploring how to balance function, aesthetics, and environmental impact. Real-world examples and technical guidance will highlight how to adapt construction techniques to terrain, climate, and use types.
Learning Objectives:
Identify appropriate bridge and boardwalk types based on type of trail, site conditions, and user needs.
Apply best practices for planning, material selection, and foundation design to ensure structural integrity and longevity.
Integrate technical construction methods that enhance safety, minimize environmental impact, and support efficient installation.
