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MEMBER TO MEMBER
Milwaukee Recreation:
Weaving Equity into All It Does
By Brian Foley

S

ince Milwaukee Recreation opened its doors more than a century
ago, the goal has been to create affordable and accessible recreation
opportunities for its community. As social equity becomes more
entwined in parks and recreation, the recreation department intentionally has focused on ensuring that resources and opportunities are also
allocated based on need.
rec/Programs/Driver-Education.
htm), which offers free driver education to students. Since 2016,
this program has maintained a 97
percent pass rate on the permit test,
while helping almost 1,000 students obtain a driver's license.
Also, in 2016, MPS C.A.R.E.S.
(Community and Recreation Engaging Students) (http://milwau
keerecreation.net/en/Programs/
MPSCARES.htm) was developed in

PHOTOS COURTESY OF MILWAUKEE RECREATION

The Steps Already Taken
The department has introduced
and restructured countless programs with equity in mind. For
example, when data showed an
alarming disparity between the
number of Milwaukee 18-yearolds with a driver's license (30
percent) compared to their suburban counterparts (71 percent), the
department developed MPS Drive
(http://milwaukeerecreation.net/

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response to the rising violence and
unrest in the city. This program was
uniquely designed and continues to
provide free, equitable activities for
community members of all ages.
It consists of three components:
Twilight Centers (http://milwau
keerecreation.net/en/Programs/
MPS-CARES/Twilight-Centers.
htm), which give teens a safe place
to go during the evenings; Wellness
Days (http://milwaukeerecreation.
net/en/Programs/MPS-CARES/
Wellness-Days.htm), which provide
fitness classes and health education
for families every month; and the
Midnight Sports Leagues (http://
milwaukeerecreation.net/en/Programs/MPS-CARES/MidnightSports-Leagues.htm), which allow
young adults to join a safe, competitive league with additional enrichment education between games.
Milwaukee Recreation Aquatics
has led the charge in hiring and
promoting a diverse aquatics staff
(www.nrpa.org/diversity-aquat
ics), which in turn has helped raise
class participation by 50 percent.
The Partnership for the Arts & Humanities (http://milwaukeerecre
ation.net/rec/Programs/Arts-Hu
manities.htm) program has reached
roughly 320,000 children through
out-of-school programming, 83
percent of whom were economiParticipants work through exercises at a
free Yoga in the Park wellness event at
Milwaukee's Wick Playfield.

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