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Article: New paradigms for therapeutic recreation and recreation and leisure service delivery: The Pattillo A+ Elementary School: Disaster Relief Project.(case study)
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- Parks & Recreation
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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In a 1999 P&R article, Shelia Franklin described some of the beneficial services that recreation professionals could bring to bear in the aftermath of natural disasters. In the article, Franklin justifies the need for recreational professionals to team up and form rescue operations in the tumultuous times following a disaster. According to Franklin, Operation Recreation Relief's mission should be threefold:
* Facilitate a donation program for equipment as well as service-donation program
* Establish a training program for park and recreation professionals
* Create teams of professionals to restore damaged parks and facilities and provide ...
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