Healthy Parks Healthy People is an international initiative to promote public awareness about the connection between individual and community health, and accessible, well-managed parks.
Healthy Parks, Healthy People: San Francisco
In 2014, East Bay Regional Park District teamed up with UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland to launch the SHINE program to bring their patients - children with chronic illnesses such as obesity, diabetes or ADHD - to the outdoors as a way to improve their physical and mental health.