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    More Than a Pretty Place: Activating Urban Parks to Improve Community Health and Wellness

    Project Overview

    7th Funding Cycle Development Award
         Project Start Date: 1/1/2012
         Project End Date: 12/31/2013

    Project Goal Statement: To understand how a new urban park, with complementary outreach and education, affects knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, assets/supports and health outcomes among neighborhood residents.

    Award Amount: $199,986

    Community Partner(s):
    Primary Community Partner: Beth Fetterley Heller, Urban Ecology Center
    Additional community partner organization: Menomonee Valley Partners

    Academic Partner(s):
    Primary Academic Partner: Kirsten M. Beyer, PhD, MPH, Institute for Health and Society
    Additional Academic Partner: Amy Kistner, Department of Family and Community Medicine

    Project Progress Summary Reports:
         Project Progress Report Summary 1/1/2012 - 8/31/2012

    Affiliated Web Pages:
         Urban Ecology Center

    Project Dissemination Efforts (as reported by the project partners)

    • Outreach Materials / Events
      • Shared program information through community newsletters and at a community open house (January-September 2012)