Session Title: (409) Before, During and After Your Recreation Center Opens
Session Type: Education Session Talk
Topic(s): Customer Service, Planning and Design , Operations and Maintenance
Day/Time: Thursday - Block 6
10/12/2023 09:00 AM (Central Time (US & Canada)) - 10/12/2023 10:00 AM (Central Time (US & Canada))
Room: Room D164
Available Both In-Person and On-Demand
Audience Experience Level: Any level
Audience Familiarity with DEI: Any Level
CEU: 0.1
Description:
You’re getting ready to open a new recreation center — now what? For many park and recreation professionals, the opening of a community recreation center enables a quantum leap in the services they can offer. This session uses recent, first-hand testimony and benchmarking data from facilities around the country to provide a behind-the-scenes look at strategies and processes to set up your center for success. Woven throughout will be the story behind the design considerations that went into Lewisville, Texas’ THRIVE Recreation Center. Attendees will gain a better understanding of the necessary preparation before, during and after their centers opens — ultimately ensuring its long-term success.
Learning Objectives:
1. Define the required components of successful planning, design and operations of a new community center.
2. Recognize challenges staff encounter when developing operational parameters.
3. Increase performance through disciplined analysis of internal processes and benchmarking of similar facilities.
Speaker(s):
Stacie Anaya
Mick Massey
Before, During and After Your Recreation Center Opens
Category
Education Session
Description
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One-hour education sessions (0.1 CEU) will be delivered as either Talks, Sandboxes, or Clinics.
Clinics and Sandboxes will be smaller sessions and on a first-come, first-serve basis, so make sure to arrive early!
- Talks will be delivered as lectures or panel sessions.
- Clinics will focus on applying concepts to real-life examples through workshop activities.
- Sandboxes are a great networking opportunity that invite participants to talk shop, compare notes and swap advice around hot topics in the field.
Twenty of the one-hour education sessions will be available on-demand through the conference app while also delivered in person.
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