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Health Care Design
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Links
Links of members are available within the German membership section. There are presently 135 German speaking members in middle Europe and in Argentina
- Animal Assisted Therapy (Website in German: Tiergestützte Therapie)
www.tiergestuetzte-therapie.de - American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA)
www.ahta.org - Aangepast Groen
Bureau Aangepast Groen - Awaji Landscape Planing and Horticulture Academy
www.awaji.ac.jp - COST Action 866 Green Care in Agriculture
www.umb.no/ - FAQs About Horticultural Therapy from Edmonds Community College
www.edcc.edu - Green Exercise
www.greenexercise.org - Healingharvest -a non-profit organization and resource center
for social service agencies, medical facilities, and community
organizations (public and private) in Lane County, Eugene, Oregon.
www.healingharvest.org - Horticultural Therapy England (THRIVE)
www.thrive.org.uk - Horticultural Therapy in Scottland (Trellis)
www.trellisscotland.org.uk
- Horticultural Therapy West-Japan
www.htwest-japan - International people-plant-interaction resource center,
College for Tropical Agriculture and Human Ressources
www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/hiih/therapy.asp - National Care Farming Initiative in Great Britain
www.ncfi.org.uk - Natuur voor gezondheit
An overview of organizations and activities focusing
on the improvement of Health by means of Nature and natural elements. Included are
chapters on research, policy and (best) practices. Other chapters deal with the city,
the countryside or targetgroups like children and elderly.
Netherlands website
www.natuurvoorgezondheid.info - Christine Pollard used her community development expertise with horticulture
to develop the HT Programs at Providence Farm in Duncan. She also offers a mobile
Home Farm Horticultural Therapy Certificate, available in Canada and accredited by
both the American Horticultural Therapy Association and the Canadian Horticultural Therapy Association
Christine Pollard, HTM - Social Farming
www.sofar-d.de - Stichting GroenZorg
- Terapia Hortícola en Chile
„Asociación Chilena de Terapia Hortícola“ -
information on an Ibero-American seminar on horticultural therapy in 2008
Asociacion Chilena de Terapia Horticola/ www.herbarium.cl/ - The Therapeutic Landscapes Network, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
providing information to the public about restorative landscapes, healing gardens,
wellness gardens, and other research-based healthcare design to be reached at: - www.healinglandscapes.org/
- Naomi Sachs, designer and executive director of the Therapeutic Landscapes Resource Center, a non-profit organisation:
- www.naomisachsdesign.com
- ASLA promotes the concept of therapeutic gardens to administrators, healthcare professionals,
and other key-decision makers who are influential in determining the creation of this
alternative form of therapy. Collect, compile and advance state-of-the-art information and
research in the specialized practice areas of therapeutic garden design: - www.host.asla.org/
- The Center for Health Design supports healthcare and design professionals all over the world
in their quest to improve the quality of healthcare through evidence-based building design: - www.healthdesign.org/
- Green Thumb Gardener’s purpose as a club is to provide resources and information for those
interested in gardening, to promote environmental awareness and community health through education,
and to provide a place and stimulate activities that fosters a joy of gardening. - www.greenthumbgardeners.org
- Monterey Bay Spice Company to be reached at:
- www.herbco.com
Conferences ...
HEALTH & SOCIAL BENEFITS OF NATURE
27, 28 January 2016 in Brussels
Invitation to a Workshop on the Health and Social Benefits of Biodiversity and Nature Protection: Brussels, 27&28 Januar
Links of organisations and individuals
Bureau Aangepast Groen is actief op het gebied van aangepast tuinieren en recreieren
voor ouderen en gehandicapten. In onze benadering staan de fysieke, emotionele, sociale en
ergonomische aspecten van aangepast groen centraal.
A network of over 240 therapeutic gardening projects in Scotland to share skills, good practice and get connected
Tuin(ieren), groenvoorziening en natuur in Gezondheids- en Ouderenzorg
Stichting GroenZorg
Health Care Design
Green Thumb Gardeners
Spice and Supply