The Forth Worth Park & Recreation department just won two major statewide awards for its commitment to innovation, inclusion, and long-range planning.<\/p>\n
The city celebrated the wins in a Monday blog post<\/a>. According to the post, the awards came following the annual Texas Recreation and Park Society (TRAPS) conference.<\/p>\n The department’s Dream Club<\/a> won the prestigious Lone Star Recreation Programming Award, which recognizes organizations that deliver innovative and effective programming to meet the needs of specific communities.<\/p>\n The Dream Club was established in 2024 to serve individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Since the program’s inception, it has expanded across 10 city locations, offering inclusive programming that is designed to remove barriers to participation.<\/p>\n Additionally, the department won the Planning Excellence Award for GREENprint Fort Worth: Parks, Recreation, Open Space and Public Realm Master Plan. The winner was selected from a pool of 200 applicants from across the state.<\/p>\n The GREENprint program<\/a> was originally envisioned as an update to the Texas Parks & Wildlife-required park, recreation, and open space master plan. It then evolved into a roadmap for the future of the city’s park system and outlines a plan for making its facilities a premier community and regional destination.<\/p>\n It reflects extensive community engagement and forward-thinking strategies focused on equity, connectivity, sustainability, and enhanced quality of life for residents and visitors. Learn more about the program and its goals here<\/a>.<\/p>\n “These statewide recognitions highlight the department’s ongoing work to expand access to recreation and guide the future of Fort Worth’s park system,” the blog post reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Forth Worth Park & Recreation department just won two major statewide awards for its commitment to innovation,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-197778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}