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Take the Stress Out of Summer! Join Linda Peck, M.Ed. for an energizing, hands-on session that blends movement, mindfulness, and mind-body techniques like EFT and ancient Asian practices to help you master stress and anxiety. Through interactive exercises, discover grounding strategies, shift your perspective, and walk away refreshed, focused, and in control. Stick around after for a hot lobster roll and seaside networking with colleagues from across the state!
Whether swimming in a backyard pool, lake, pond, or river, every resident should know the essentials of water safety in an effort to reduce drownings. To help raise awareness about water safety in our communities, CRPA has developed a Water Safety Social Media Toolkit with graphics, statistics, and suggested social media messages.
Members are reporting an increased frequency of suicide crises & mental health issues among the youth enrolled in their programs. Increased levels of anxiety & depression linked to social media & cyberbullying has had a huge impact on adolescents. CRPA feels it is critical to offer this training for parks and recreation professionals as well as directors and senior staff of camps and before and afterschool programs, at convenient times for professional full-time & seasonal staff. Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR): the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. QPR is an emergency mental health intervention for suicidal persons aimed at identifying and interrupting the crisis and directing that person to the proper care.
This annual conference brings together over 350 parks and recreation professionals from across Connecticut and the surrounding states. Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your product or service and promote your brand to the largest gathering of industry professionals in New England. If you provide products, services, or benefit programs to parks & recreation departments, agencies, or other groups you can't afford to miss this show!
Aquatics Supervisor School is a pre-season training opportunity geared towards aquatics staff in a supervisory role such as: Head Lifeguards, Aquatics Directors/Supervisors, and Pool Managers. Participants will build and develop an understanding of best practices for aquatics supervision! All participants will receive a certificate of completion.
Camp College offers a unique and convenient training opportunity for your seasonal camp staff and camp directors. This year we are offering 11 educational sessions on topics such as programming, behavior management, inclusive recreation, and more! Plus, the day will start and end with some awesome team building challenges. Use this to supplement your seasonal staff training or in lieu of it.
Parks Field Day is a valuable opportunity for maintenance professionals to connect with the companies that provide the products and services they use every day. Attendees can explore the latest equipment, compare pricing, and get hands-on demo experience with tools and technologies that support their daily work. NEW TO THIS YEAR’S EVENT, we’ll be placing a special focus on sprayer and fertilizer spreader calibration, featuring practical demonstrations and expert insights into current calibration techniques, along with a look at the latest trends in irrigation across the industry.
CRPA offers our members discounted tickets to Lake Compounce, the Connecticut Science Center, Adventure Park & more! Book your summer camp, vacation camps, and afterschool programing field trips through CRPA's bulk discount program or order tickets through CRPA to sell to your residents at a discounted rate!
Epi Pen training will teach you to recognize signs and symptoms of severe allergic reaction and understand appropriate handling, use, and disposal of an epinephrine auto-injector. Municipalities are authorized by the State to have staff certified in Epi-Pen administration without taking the full medication course. This certification is good for 1 year. The CT Department of Public Health mandates that all youth camps administering medications to campers comply with the requirements set forth in CT statute and regulations. Learn what this means for your camp and become certified to dispense medication at your camp site. This certification is good for 3 years.