Dates and locations announced for the 2012 Fundamentals Of Horticultural Therapy classes
Perkins School
for the Blind
Watertown, MA
October 11-14, 2012
Anchor Center
for Blind Children
Denver, Colorado
November 1-4, 2012
Elkus Ranch
Half Moon Bay, California
November 15-18, 2012
More about Fundamentals of Horticultural Therapy
Learn how to combine a passion for gardening and helping people through the innovative field of horticultural therapy. Join students from across the country to learn more by enrolling in the first class in the certificate program, Fundamentals of Horticultural Therapy this fall in one of three locations. To complete a full certificate in HT plan to attend three additional classes. Each will be offered in Colorado and California in 2013.
Horticultural Therapy Management
Linking People and Plants
Course Description
This course prepares students to develop, manage and evaluate horticultural therapy (HT) programs and sites. Considerations and solutions for the design of indoor and outdoor therapeutic HT spaces are discussed. Also included are private contracting business models, marketing, and strategies to obtain funding and resources for program support. Comprehensive program proposals are used to encompass all the major elements of program and site design, implementation and management. (Meets five days + distance sessions)
Learning Objectives
- Assess/evaluate HT program facilities and spaces
- Design raised beds for accessibility and program use.
- Design HT therapeutic spaces that fit the site, population and organization.
- Select appropriate plants to support the goals of an HT program at the site.
- Plan for implementation of design and seasonal plantings.
- Plan for management of structures and plant maintenance.
- Identify a variety of potential funding sources.
- Identify to integrate with existing services and programs in the community and organization.
- Identify the steps used to practice HT as a private contractor.
- Market an HT program, through oral and written methods.
- Develop an HT program budget.
- Create plans for program implementation and evaluation.
- Plan a complete horticultural therapy program for an actual site, and create a detailed written program proposal to describe it.
Instructors
"A very meaningful series of classes to carry out the greening movement."