Healthy Parks Healthy People

The program committee are excited by the origin, content and high standard of the 250 proposals received and will shortly complete a fascinating presenter program designed around these papers. The program includes the traditional oral and poster presentations along with thematic workshops, speed sessions, group discussions, knowledge cafes and training sessions.

Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress Program

There are three items you may wish to view:  an updated draft detailed program, program alterations since version 1 and a snapshot of the papers and abstracts.

1. Click Here for version 2 of the detailed draft program (released 12/3/10).

Please note, this program is a DRAFT ONLY and delegates will receive a final version in hard copy at the Congress. We therefore encourage you to view this version on screen to minimise waste. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday programs are spread over two landscape pages to fit the 15 concurrent sessions, please use the scroll bar on the bottom of the page to view the whole time slot.

All plenary sessions, breaks and social functions have been individually highlighted and run across the page to indicate that only one session is taking place. To search for a particular author or abstract number, you can use the “control f” function and type the name/number. You can also download the interactive pdf on the program page of the web site to see a snapshot or précis corresponding with the same author/abstract number.

2. Click Here for a list of the program alterations between version 1 and version 2. 

3. Click Here for a snapshot of papers and abstracts (updated 12/3/10).

Notes on using this interactive PDF:

• Click on the tab beside the author name in the index to go to the abstract summary.
• At the bottom of each page you can navigate forward or back or return to the index.
• The index is displayed over the first 11 pages of this 90 page PDF

This document will continue to be updated as we receive the summaries. We encourage minimal waste and ask that you do not print the entire document. The delegate handbook included in the congress registration will include these summaries.

Experiential Tours

The Experiential Tours day of the Congress Program provides the opportunity to meet industry professionals and local experts, enthusiastic to share their knowledge and stories. At a selection of prime Melbourne locales, delegates can create meaning through direct experience.  You will have the chance to be drawn into local nature, culture and history. These tours provide an opportunity for personal growth and time to reflect on the values and interests that are experienced on an individual level.

The participatory tours provide new knowledge and authentic experiences by encouraging the meeting and coming together of different cultures, their problems, solutions and potential.

We will be inviting you to choose from a unique selection of tours that aim to provide personal enrichment, enlightenment, stimulation and engagement as motivators.  Expect to choose something like a Kayak journey up the Yarra River, through the CBD to nearby bushland and sipping a cup of traditional billy tea, washing down Eucalyptus Honey and damper on an indigenous food tour.  We have designed an array of tours that will inspire and enliven your senses. Click Here for Tours

Congress Themes

To help us review your abstract please select one of the following categories which best reflects the abstract. As you read down the page you will also notice a number of cross cutting themes listed. Select one or more optional cross cutting themes if they are applicable to your proposal.

The four congress themes are:

1. Healthy Communities

• Social connections
• Cultural connections
• Building neighbourhoods – partnerships, policy and planning aspects encompassing parks and green spaces.
• Economy, development and tourism.

2. Healthy Parks

• Caring for country – managing the environment.
• Sustainability.
• Effective Management of Parks.
• Designing and creating healthy parks for people.

3. Healthy Participation

• Encouraging participation by people of diverse backgrounds, different demographics – age, gender, interests and abilities.
• Facilities, Programs and Services.
• Recreation and tourism opportunities and experiences.
• Education and life long learning -Nature’s cultural and environmental classroom.

4. Healthy People

• Mental Health – Health Promotion, early intervention and treatment.
• Physical Health – Health Promotion, early intervention and management.
• Wellness - quality of life, sense of holistic well-being and self-esteem.

Cross cutting themes

The following cross cutting themes may be threads that cross over all themes and sub themes. Consider these also when developing your proposal:

• Indigenous
• Seniors
• Youth
• Innovation
• Climate Change
• Play 
• Research
• Volunteering

Review Process & Acceptance Notification

All proposals are reviewed by specialist groups that have been allocated to each of the four congress themes.  Review groups are made up of professional people who work in the theme areas from local, national and international organisations and come from private, academic and public or not-for-profit sectors.  Each proposal will be carefully assessed against the criteria and a short list produced for each theme.  The Program Committee will select the proposals to form the content of the program.  All applicants have been notified of their status.

Optional Peer Reviewed Papers

Those who are offered a place within the oral program will be given the option to submit a paper of up to 5000 on their topic for peer review.  The peer reviewed paper will then be published in the congress proceedings.

Program Publishing

A program listing will be available in February on this webpage.

The Publications

If accepted to form part of the Congress program, your abstract will be included in the Congress Program and Abstract Book to be handed out at the Congress.

It is also intended that a Congress Proceedings will be produced and be available after the Congress. These proceedings will include the following:

For Oral Presentations - Your original 750 word abstract or 5000 word peer reviewed paper AND the electronic presentation you use at the Congress to deliver your paper.
For Group Discussions, Themed Workshops, Training Session/Master Class and Knowledge Cafés – A summary of the session.
For Speed Sessions and Poster presenters – Your original 750 word abstract

Additional Information

All speakers will be required to register and pay for the conference as a full delegate by 31 January 2010 for your abstract to be included in the congress publications.

Late proposals will only be considered should there still be spaces available in the program.

Technical Program Committee 

A program committee has conducted the role of technical program development for the International Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress 2010.

The committee includes the following members:

Chair:

• Dr Mardie Townsend – Deakin University

Members:

• Emily Armet – beyondblue
• Ricky Bell – Sport and Recreation Victoria
• Andrew Schneider – ‘Go for your life’, Department of Human Services
• Rachel Carlisle – Heart Foundation
• Jenny Holliday – People and Parks Foundation
• Cathy Kiss – Playgrounds and Recreation Association of Victoria & City of Melbourne
• Ingrid Sieler – Parks Forum
• Tania Jacobs  – Tourism Victoria
• Ian Walker – Parks Victoria
• Rowland Watson – Department of Human Services