February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 37

Caralie Fennessey, 30
Operations/Communications Director, Endless Highway, Inc. (NY)
With a master's degree in integrative design and as
operations/communications
director
at
nonprofit
Endless Highway, Inc., Caralie Fennessey, CTRS,
is changing the landscape of accessible recreation
across the Greater Rochester Region (New York) from
infrastructure to culture to community. Fennessey has
expanded inclusive recreation programming for youth
with and without physical disabilities to increase parallel
play; more than doubled the organization's budget
to provide
direct
financial support and recreational
equipment sponsorship for disabled youth through grant
writing; and leveraged her knowledge and certification in
inclusive design solutions to improve built environments
and disability awareness in the context of recreation.
Nathan Fort, 27
Parks and Recreation Director, City of Dayton (TN)
Nathan Fort is the youngest parks and recreation director in
Tennessee. Fort is bringing increased diversity and inclusion
policies and procedures for the city as an " out " gay parks and
recreation director. He also has created new initiatives
with different community organizations and other
community members for them to become more
involved in the park and recreation department.
What's more, he established the largest doubles
pickleball tournament in the state. Fort
continues to contribute diversity and inclusion
programming with language and mental healthbased
programming, such as his September
Suicide Prevention Words of Encouragement
Wall and American Sign Language classes.
Casey Grice, 25
Recreation Assistant, City of Colorado Springs (CO)
As the recreation assistant with the City of Colorado Springs'
(Colorado) Therapeutic Recreation Program (TRP), Casey Grice
is a professional who sees a need and takes action. In 2021,
Grice observed that many TRP participants had declined
in health. He saw the need for further exercise-based
programs due to this decline. Thus, Grice created a
partnership with the City of Colorado Springs' sports
program and introduced the TRP participants to
Boxercise. He brought life to this new program
and to a facility that often is overlooked and underutilized.
Boxercise started as one session and
has now expanded into two multi-week sessions.
Gabe Hackney, 28
Facility Manager, Mecklenburg
County Park and Recreation (NC)
Gabe Hackney serves as facility
manager of Tom Sykes
Recreation
Center
in Mecklenburg
County, North Carolina.
This center is among the
city's smaller complexes, but
yields the largest participation
in summer camp, after-school
and school-age programs. The
facility is popular because of
Hackney. He is currently the
lead facilitator for a cycling initiative
in Mecklenburg County,
called Learn to Ride. It focuses
on teaching people proper techniques
to learn how to ride a
bike. Hackney has implemented
hundreds of private bike lessons
to community members.
Whenever people in Mecklenburg
County inquire about bike
lessons to the department and
local nonprofits, they contact
him.
PARK S ANDRECRE AT ION . OR G | FEBR U AR Y 2 0 22 | Parks & Recreation
37

February 2022 - Parks & Recreation

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of February 2022 - Parks & Recreation

February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - Intro
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - Cover1
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - Cover2
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 1
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 2
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 3
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 4
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 5
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 6
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 7
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 8
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 8a
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 8b
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 9
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 10
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 11
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 12
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 13
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 14
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 15
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 16
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 17
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 18
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 19
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 20
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 21
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 22
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 23
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 24
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 25
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 26
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 27
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 28
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 29
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 30
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 31
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 32
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 33
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 34
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 35
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 36
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 37
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 38
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 39
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 40
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 41
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 42
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 43
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 44
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 45
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 46
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 47
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 48
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 49
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 50
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 51
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 52
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 53
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 54
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 55
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 56
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - Cover3
February 2022 - Parks & Recreation - Cover4
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/april-2024
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/march-2024
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/february-2024
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/january-2024
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/december-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/november-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/october-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/september-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/august-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/july-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/june-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/may-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/april-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/march-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/february-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/january-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/december-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/november-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/october-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/september-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/august-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/july-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/june-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/may-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/april-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/march-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/february-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/january-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/december-2021
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/november-2021
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/october-2021
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/september-2021
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/august-2021
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/july-2021
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/june-2021
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/may-2021
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/april-2021
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/march-2021
https://www.nxtbookmedia.com