contents june columns 8 departments Parks and Recreation: A Critical Link to Health Michael P. Kelly 10 Editor's Letter Good Health Should Begin With Us Vitisia Paynich 12 We Are Parks and Recreation NRPA Introduces New Health Equity Framework 12 Remembering Sandra 'Sandy' MacDiarmid 13 Leveraging Partnerships to Achieve Broader Health Equity Goals 14 Member Benefit: Discounted Insurance for NRPA Members! 15 Perspectives 18 Finance for the Field Partnering With Hospitals John L. Crompton, Ph.D. 20 Advocacy 16 Research Making the Grade: Supporting the Growth of Local Parks and Recreation Emily Feenstra Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Parks and Recreation Kevin Roth 17 Park Pulse Improving Mental Health With Parks and Recreation 22 Equity Giving a Voice to LGBTQ+ Older Adults of Color Tiff Cunin 50 Operations Essential Operations for an Essential Summer Kelley Freridge 24 Conservation From Pines to Prairie: Putting Adaptive Resource Management to Work Tim Schetter, Ph.D. 51 Park Essentials 55 Advertiser Index 26 Law Review ADA Challenge to Segregation of Program Participant James C. Kozlowski, J.D., Ph.D. 56 Park Bench Virtual Mentorship Program Yields Great Rewards Cathy Cloukey Parks & Recreation is printed using soy ink on at least 10 percent post-consumer recycled paper and is mailed in a wrap - only when required - that is plant based and certified compostable. If you are interested in helping us go even greener, email us at prmagazine@nrpa.org and ask to opt out of receiving the print magazine. Parks & Recreation is always available to read in an ezine format at ezine.nrpa.org. 6 Parks & Recreation | J U N E 2 02 1 | PA R K S A N D R E C R E AT I O N .O R G PHOTO COURTESY OF ART WEBER Cover image: Photo courtesy of Rawpixelimages, Dreamstime.com Page 24 Logging operations are conducted to restore land to a native prairie at a Metroparks Toledo (Ohio) pine planting site.http://www.Dreamstime.com http://ezine.nrpa.org