GOAL 1: Commit to health and wellness best practices to establish a pervasive culture of inclusion, diversity, and safety across all departments.
- Workplace Health Resources: American Heart Association, Wellness Council of America, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Example Wellness Vendor Decision Guide
- Examples of City/County Wellness Campaigns
GOAL 2: Provide direct services/programming to the community that addresses health and well-being challenges:
- Working Together to Advance the Application of Horticulture to Human Well-being
- Horticulture and the Community
- Why Are Trees Important? Human Health and Economics
- One Health, One Planet
- Leveraging Outdoor Green Space for Improved Health
- Nature's Riches: The Health and Financial Benefits of Nearby Nature
- Analyzing Trends Around Mental Health, Race, and COVID 19
- Green Prescriptions and Their Co-Benefits: Integrative Strategies for Public and Environmental Health
- An Update of the Literature Supporting the Well-Being Benefits of Plants: Part 2 Physiological Health Benefits
- Park Equity, Life Expectancy, and Power Building
- Barriers to Nature Engagement for Youth of Color
GOAL 3: Promote and educate visitors on the physical and mental health benefits that gardens provide.
- BGCI Report by Kerry Waylen-Biodiversity improving human well-being
- Connecting to College/University Students
- Take It Outside and NatureRX at Cornell (innovative programming)
- Culinary Program Resource
- Biocultural Approaches to Well-being and Sustainability Indicators Across Scales
- Health, Well-being and Medicine (Native Plant Conservation Campaign)
- Alliance for a Healthier Generation
- American College Health Association
- Getting Real: Health in the Teaching of Climate and Earth Science
- Oxford Research Encyclopedias Environment and Human Health
- List of gardens with accredited health and well-being programming/certificates
- Chicago Botanic Garden Horticulture Therapy/Direct Services
- Biophilia Network, access presentation materials and video recordings from previous installments of Phipps monthly Biophilia: Pittsburgh meeting series and learn more about Biophilia and the important connection between the natural world and human health
- Children’s Play Farmers' Market at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
- Roots of Success: Health Food & Agriculture Module, The Fundamentals of Environmental Literacy (Introduction) Module, Water Module
Recent research articles and publications on the Environmental Benefits to Human Health:
- https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13750-016-0058-7
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335516300249
Books:
- Gardening for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Special Educational Needs, Natasha Etherington
- Accessible Gardening for People with Physical Disabilities, Janeen R. Adil
- No Greatness Without Goodness, Randy Lewis
- Power of Trees Reforesting Soul, Michael Perlman
- Nature Deficit Disorder, Richard Louv
- Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press: https://doi.org/10.17226/10044.
- Biophilia, Edward O. Wilson
- Enabling Garden: Creating Barrier-Free Gardens, Gene Rothert
Mental Health Resources:
- https://www.mentalhealth.gov/talk/people-mental-health-problems
- https://www.thetrevorproject.org/#sm.0001y3d6uec24d5sxpr2lsgtkk4t4
- https://www.bbrfoundation.org/
- https://www.nami.org/
- http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/
USDA SNAP Ed-Cooking and Nutrition Lessons:
