Save the Date for Urban & Municipal Parks 2026 – 2027 Workshops

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Mark your calendars; Urban & Municipal Parks workshops are here! Sign up for our ListServ to receive registration information as soon as it becomes available.

Participants are not expected to attend every workshop offered on a given day and may register for individual sessions as desired.

Participants in HOP (High Obesity Program) eligible counties qualify for a reduced registration rate. The current HOP supported counties are Angelina, Bee, Brooks, Cameron, Cherokee, Cochran, Cottle, Culberson, Dawson, Dimmit, Duval, Edwards, Falls, Gonzales, Hidalgo, Houston, Hudspeth, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Jones, King, Maverick, Morris, Newton, Presidio, Reeves, San Augustine, San Patricio, Shelby, Starr, Terry, Trinity, Val Verde, Walker, Webb, Wharton, Wilbarger, Willacy, Zapata, and Zavala.

2026 – 2027 Workshop Schedule

Rosenberg, TX – November 18 & 19

  • November 18 | 8:30am – 12:30pm – Enhancing Park Safety with CPTED Principles
  • November 18 | 1:30pm – 4:30pm – Building from Ground up: Creating your Park Maintenance Plan
  • November 19 | 8:30am – 12:30pm – Strengthening Your Prospects: Grant Writing 101 for Parks, Trails, and Open Spaces
  • November 19 | 1:30pm – 4:30pm – From Dream to Green: Best Practices in Modern Day Park Planning

Dallas, TX – January 27 & 28

  • January 27 | 5-hour workshop – Grant Writing 201
  • January 28 | 4- hour workshop – Integrating CPTED into Plans and Policies 

Nacogdoches, TX – April 14 & 15

  • April 14 | 8:30am – 12:30pm – Enhancing Park Safety with CPTED Principles
  • April 14 | 1:30pm – 4:30pm – Building from Ground up: Creating your Park Maintenance Plan
  • April 15 | 8:30am – 12:30pm – Strengthening Your Prospects: Grant Writing 101 for Parks, Trails, and Open Spaces
  • April 15 | 1:30pm – 4:30pm – From Dream to Green: Best Practices in Modern Day Park Planning


Belton, TX – April 22 & 23

  • April 22 | 8:30am – 12:30pm – Enhancing Park Safety with CPTED Principles
  • April 22 | 1:30pm – 4:30pm – Building from Ground up: Creating your Park Maintenance Plan
  • April 23 | 8:30am – 12:30pm – Strengthening Your Prospects: Grant Writing 101 for Parks, Trails, and Open Spaces
  • April 23 | 1:30pm – 4:30pm – From Dream to Green: Best Practices in Modern Day Park Planning

This year’s workshop topics:

From Dream to Green: Best Practices in Modern Day Park Planning: Learn how to compile or update a Community Park System or Site Plan. We will review common components of plans, identify what is most meaningful for your organization, and provide time to brainstorm how to begin implementing a planning process for your park system or specific sites within your community.

 

Strengthening Your Prospects: Grant Writing 101 for Parks, Trails, and Open Spaces: Attendees will learn basic grant writing concepts, including how to look for grants, best practices in writing grants, and key terms such as logic models, milestones, etc. We’ll practice writing common grant proposal sections and review best practices for support materials


Enhancing Park Safety with CPTED Principles: Attendees will learn Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) basic principles, evaluate a site, review CPTED in park plans and policies, and devise feasible, local action steps.


Building from Ground up: Creating your Park Maintenance Plan: This course is designed to motivate you to start or update a maintenance/operations plan. We’ll review the value of maintenance plans, discuss key components of plans, identify what is meaningful for your organization, provide time to assess and review various maintenance plans, and allow you time to brainstorm how to get started on a plan for your organization.


Grant Writing 201 (Dallas only)


Integrating CPTED into Plans and Policies (Dallas only)

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