Services

Community Consultations

Need a fresh perspective or outside opinion on any parks and recreation related issue or project? ORPR's experienced professionals will visit your agency to discuss parks, facilities, programs, marketing or public relations topics or concerns. ORPR will then make recommendations and/or offer direct services that will best be able to meet your needs.

Community Surveys

Evaluating and understanding your community's issues, needs, and preferences is a valuable tool to help guide agencies in providing successful and appropriate programs, services, parks and facilities. Our experienced professional staff can work with your agency at a variety of levels:

Services

• Survey development
• Agency, citizen, & staff input (e.g., focus groups, interviews)
• Sample selection
• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Community Survey report
• Board/Community presentations

ORPR operates on a cost recovery system. Pricing varies according to services provided.

Program/Facility Assessments

Are your programs, facilities and or services operating at their optimum levels? Do you need to revaluate your processes, planning, implementation, staffing or operations? ORPR will observe, evaluate, and conduct focus groups to assess areas of concern.

Services

• Observation and analysis
• Written Evaluation
• Recommendations
• Reports
• Presentations

Educational Programs

• Community Parks and Facilities Planning: Useful Tools for Your Community
• The Customer Experience – Going Above and Beyond for a STAR Performance!
• The Benefits of Park and Recreation
• Behavior Management Training for Youth Leaders and Supervisors
• POISE: A Planning Model for Programs
• Putting the Personal into Personal Training
• Who's Training your Personal Trainers and Group Fitness Staff?
• Managing the Health of Our Community – Whose Job Is It?
• Stress and Success: Making It Work
• Living with Passion and Compassion: The Secret to Professional Success
• Gain Health – Gain Success
• Healthy Options for a Healthy Staff

Applied Research

• Environmental Preferences and the Use of Natural Areas
• Increasing Intercultural Understanding Between Park Managers and African American and Latino Users of Urban Parks
• The Effect of Sport Facilities and Trail Systems on the Use of Green Spaces