Eppley staff often hear, “We had no idea you existed or what you did!” when we first meet new partners or interested clients. After 27 years spent working across the nation as a part of a Big 10 University, you’d think that might not be the case! Except, it is. Eppley Institute staff struggle with how much time we need […]
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Communication Courses for Park Professionals
The Eppley Institute is partnering with the National Park Service Office of Communications to develop a suite of courses to improve communications decision-making, consistency, and professionalism. These courses are designed for park professionals in federal, state, county, and municipal public lands agencies and non-profit organizations that are responsible for communicating with the public. This is an asynchronous course of study […]
Is Your Parks and Recreation Agency Accessible?
Navigating requirements, standards, and best practices around accessible recreation can be overwhelming. Everyone, regardless of age or ability, benefits from parks and recreation opportunities. For communities to fully benefit from parks and recreation opportunities, your electronic communications, program offerings, and facilities must all be accessible to people with disabilities. The National Center on Accessibility (NCA), a program of the Eppley […]
Briefing Update: Improving Agency Performance Through Improved Learning
As park, public land, and recreation agencies focus on improvement, adding significant numbers of staff and finding highly qualified staff can often be a challenge. Some agencies work to create a learning model that can drive enhanced performance, build better services, and improve agency credibility. The goal of this is to build an agency that is responsive, strategic, and credible. […]
A Briefing from the National Center on Accessibility: Prototyping Tactile Models
The National Center on Accessibility, now a part of the Eppley Institute, provides a wide range of accessibility-based services including training, consulting, advising, and technical assistance. One of the services, is the testing of prototypes with people with many different types of disabilities. This briefing, however, focus is on people who are blind or have vision impairments for this article. […]
National Center on Accessibility Continues Extraordinary 25 Plus Year Record Unites with Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands
Indiana University’s National Center on Accessibility, one of the first institutions focusing on recreation access for people with disabilities, continues to serve the nation with technical assistance and training since it was created in 1993. As a unit, the National Center on Accessibility (NCA) serves national, state, and local parks working across the nation. Since 1993, NCA is […]
Eppley Call Out: WE NEED YOUR Park Examples
The Eppley Institute has several new projects that highlight the theoretical and practical ways park visitors benefit from the natural environment. We need concrete examples of programs, policies, partnerships and more in which parks and related organizations have incorporated nature purposefully to benefit visitors and/or their community. From basic exposure to trees or open space, to designing a facility to […]
