Add Your Organization and Send to Media

We have added the first Press Release and Op-Ed templates to the marketing kit under the Spread the Word tab on www.texaschildreninnature.org. Download the Word documents and modify to your local needs. Let your community know about your work with Texas Children in Nature and encourage others to get involved.

See Spread the Word for additional marketing resources.

Spread the Word

Please check out the new resources available in the marketing kit under Spread the Word!

Download the Word version of “10 Reasons Children Need Nature” to add your logo to the flyer. You can also download the Texas Children in Nature logo to add to your website to promote getting kids outdoors. A unifying message and brand will help communicate and promote this important initiative.

Visit Texas Children In Nature’s marketing kit:

http://txcinc.wordpress.com/spread-the-word/

Advancing the Texas Children in Nature Strategic Plan

On December 3rd and 4th, over 350 Texans gathered at the University of Texas at Austin to learn about the Texas Children in Nature Strategic Plan, to be inspired by model initiatives from across the state, and to commit to make this strategic plan a reality.

The broad support for this plan and strong desire to work together to implement it was made clear by the high level of engagement and commitment demonstrated at our conference. Consider the following amazing conference outcomes:

• More than 350 attended our conference. An attendee list is attached to make it easy to stay in touch with others and coordinate activities in your region.
• 123 participants signed up for action teams to work to implement the plan in the areas of access, community, education, and health
• Action steps were identified in workshops for sixteen goals
• Leaders from 23 different organizations spoke in our plenary sessions to express support for the strategic plan and introduce model programs
• Leaders from seven different Texas regions pledged follow up meetings in their regions to plan regional activities.

As we look ahead, we ask that you take three steps to help us keep up the momentum:

1. Please take a few minutes to evaluate the conference with this online survey.
2. If you were not able to sign up to serve on an action team that will work to implement the strategic plan, please use this form to indicate that you would like to serve on the Access, Community, Education, Health, Marketing, or Natural Leaders action teams.
3. Please bookmark this site. Over the next few weeks this website will shift from our ‘conference website’ to an electronic gathering place for coordinating our work on the Texas Children in Nature Strategic Plan. We will be adding photos and videos from the conference and other information.

Successful Launch of Texas Children in Nature Strategic Plan!

On December 3 and 4 more than 350 Texans gathered at the Auditorium at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library to launch the Texas Children in Nature Strategic Plan. Conference video, powerpoint presentations, photos, and proceedings will be posted to this site soon, and this website will become a hub to coordinate our implementation plans as our work continues.

If you would like to join us in our work to help Texas children and their families spend more time outdoors in nature, please download the Texas Children in Nature Strategic Plan (PDF), read news articles about the conference and plan, and send us an email at texasconference@nwf.org with your contact information so that we can keep you posted about our progress. If you would like to be a part of one of the four action teams (Access, Community, Education, or Health) that will be working to implement the strategic plan, please let us know in your email.

Live Webcast

If you are not able to attend the Texas Children in Nature Conference in Austin, the plenary sessions of the conference will be webcast live. No registration required.

Friday Panels 9:00am – 3:00pm http://realaudio.cc.utexas.edu:8080/ramgen/redundant/cinc120310.rm

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Saturday – Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, 8:30am – 9:30am
http://streamer.beg.utexas.edu/Streamer/Viewer/?peid=0df7ce56cb83439b8674fd64db40c4d81d

Technical Requirements for Saturday from Thompson Conference Center:

·         The Silver Light plug in must be installed on the computer.

·        When you click the Webcast link above, you will be automatically directed to the installation information for Silver Light if it is not already installed on your computer.