The Community Branch Committee is still actively seeking items that can be used in this year's Conference Prize Pool! Proceeds from our prize pool are used to offset costs of workshops and seminars throughout the year that are essential to the professional growth of PRPS members. Please consider making a donation! Past items have included gift certificates, admissions to theme parks and venues, t-shirts, bags, water bottles, etc., etc., etc. Even small items are greatly appreciated, as they can be combined to make baskets. Think outside the box! If you have any questions regarding donations, please contact Brianna Muller at bmuller@whitemarshtwp.org or 610-828-7276 x 2404. Donations can be given to a member of the Community Branch or can be brought to the conference. Please let us know if you will be making a donation!  

 

Dementia Taskforce Workshop:

A Practical Guide for Planning and Programming for Persons with Dementia

.6 CEUs available 

  

Each workshop will cover a wide range of information, from disease process to programming and care planning for patients.

 

This workshop is ideal for anyone dealing with dementia patients on a casual or daily basis.

March 3, 2014 (This workshop is only on March 3. There was an error in our brochure.)

Norcom Community Center, Philadelphia, PA

 

March 6, 2014

Masonic Village at Sewickley, Sewickley, PA 

 

For more details or to register online, visit our website at www.prps.org.  

 

 

For the full PRPS Training Update, click here.

 

March 12, 2014 - York College of PA

Weinstock Lecture Hall, Willman Business Center

Click here for the brochure.

Online registration will be available tomorrow on the PRPS website.

 

Online registration is now OPEN for all workshops below.

 

Swimming Pool Re-Certification

March 22, 2014 - Seven Springs Mountain Resort

April 15, 2014 - PRPS Office 

April 28, 2014 - Greater Plymouth Community Center

 

Swimming Pool Management 101

April 8, 2014 - PRPS Office

April 9, 2014 - Greater Plymouth Community Center

 

Department of Agriculture Pesticide Exam

April 9, 2014 - PRPS Office

April 10, 2014 - Greater Plymouth Community Center

 

Certified Playground Safety Inspector Course

May 12-14, 2014 - Cranberry Township Municipal Center

 

For a list of other training outside PRPS, click here. 

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Northeast Regional Office, is now accepting applications for the Trail Assistance Mini-Grant Program in Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Recreation & Park Society, Inc. is pleased to announce they will again sponsor the 2014 Hershey's Track & Field Youth Program. 

 

If you do not already host a local meet your department, agency or school is invited and encouraged to participate in this program. It all begins at the local level with a recreation or leisure service agency, playground program, physical education or special event sponsored by your school district or local track club. Plan to include this activity in your Spring program; as an introduction to your summer program; or as a cooperative program with your local school district and recreation department.

 

The local meet competition is open to boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 14. There are seven events in this program including four individual track events, a 4 X 100 meter relay and two field events (standing long jump and softball throw). The emphasis is on participation, involvement and the development of physical fitness. While the program stimulates competition, it is not a highly competitive or organized type of program for the local level. It is a program that introduces the aspiring athlete to individual competition and acquired track skills through which personal improvement and personal fitness can be developed.

 

Local meets can be held now through June 7th. Those holding a local meet will advance winners to district competitions held at designated locations throughout the state during the month of June (date determined by district coordinator). First and second place finishers of District Meets move on to the Pennsylvania State Championship to be held Saturday, June 28, 2014, at the Pennsylvania State University Track. Selected winners of the Pennsylvania State Meet will then form the Mid-Atlantic Regional team, who will compete in the North American Final Meet held at Henry Hershey Field in Hershey, July 31-August 3. National sponsors of this program are The Hershey Company, the National Recreation and Park Association, the National Association for Sports and Physical Education, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and Key Club.

 

For more information on this program, please contact the PRPS office or Jeff Hall, State Chair, (814) 231-3071, jhall@crcog.net.

 

  

   

For information on exhibiting or sponsorship at the 2014 TRI, click here.