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Children and Nature Connection - Northern Colorado

317 W. Prospect
Fort Collins and surrounding, Colorado

Since working to bring Louv to Ft. Collins in Fall 2006, this collaborative effort of 20 local agencies and organizations has focused on community outreach to raise awareness and encourage parents to take kids outside. Public presentations, book study classes for teachers, and booth at local events have been used to spread the word. Agencies and organizations are modifying their youth outreach programs to include unstructured play time. Future goals include hiring a staff person; researching barriers and implementing efforts to overcome them (with monitoring for success)and finding opportunities to coach parents on the "how tos" of taking kids outside.

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"If you go with long-term significance, my pick for the top story of not only 2009 but also of the 21st Century is the pandemic of Nature Deficit Disorder, a term so aptly coined by Richard Louv in his best-selling outdoor book, Last Child in the Woods...."
— Bill Schneider, NewWest.Net

“Concerns about long-term consequences—affecting emotional well-being, physical health, learning abilities, environmental consciousness—have spawned a national movement to ‘leave no child inside.’ In recent months, it has been the focus of Capitol Hill hearings, state legislative action, grassroots projects, a U.S. Forest Service initiative to get more children into the woods and a national effort to promote a ‘green hour’ in each day.”
— Washington Post, June 2007

“The movement to reconnect children to the natural world has arisen quickly, spontaneously, and across the usual social, political, and economic dividing lines.”
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