Healthy Parks Healthy People

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This is a wonderful Tour beginning at Croxton Special School. Explore how the schools kitchen garden program has been a successful tool and see how the community has also become involved.

Then visit Caitlin’s Retreat, a wellness centre harnessing the known health benefits of nature, promoting wellbeing in young people with special needs, their parents and siblings. It’s a captivating place, maximising the sights and sounds of its bush setting. Importantly, it enables families to stop being a special needs family for a moment, and just enjoy being a family.

Travel to Laughing Waters Artists-in-Residence programme. See firsthand the role of the landscape in wellbeing and the arts. Digging a Hole to China is a site-specific performance with sculpture-based installations inspired by visual artist, Anna Glynn’s connection to the adjacent/neighbouring landscape in which she grew up.

Inspired by the unique parkland surrounding it, the new RCH has been designed to integrate with the park and deliver a patient and family-focused healing environment.  The RCH is also aiming to be Australia’s greenest hospital.

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