Concrete Safaris

Public health americorps members served children, youth and community with environmental health literacy and placemaking workshops or outreach and referral services at Concrete Safaris' placemakingcorps. The outdoor leadership academy offers environmental health-centered internships for youth. It aims to expose 14-24 year olds to healthcare, business, media, food services, and construction opportunities, develop their leadership skills, and engage the local community in outdoor activities. Interns participate in project-based learning or work for 6 to 25 hours per week in gardening, outdoor play, health promotion, or photography. The 2023 program involved 306 interns, paid by the nyc department of youth and community development or the nyc human resource administration.city surfers is an after-school program and summer camp operating 5 days/week that aims to improve the health and fitness of elementary school children. In 2023, children in the kindergarten to fifth grades learned basic outdoor skills and/or developed active living interventions, gardened, took photographs, cycled, and embarked on field trips. Gardening activities took place on land belonging to the new york city housing authority. All other outdoor, active programming took place in nyc parks and streets.youth delivered junglegym 2023 on east 106th and east 116th streets, both between lexington and third avenues, for children, families, groups, & neighbors to experience single-day, outdoor adventures in the streets, including obstacles, games, arts & crafts, dancing, & more. Face painting and bouncy houses were also enjoyed.green exercise days, cs' garden-based field trip program, was provided to over 200 children from local schools. Local residents also continued to participate in an adopt-a-bed program and daily volunteer opportunities.