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Proposed content of the conference proceedings

Urban and Community Forestry: Working Together to Facilitate Change

 Proceedings

National Urban and Community Forestry Minority Outreach and Education Conference

Sponsored by

The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council

Ford Foundation

Summary

 Part I. Introduction

 Conference goal and objectives

Conference structure

Conference participants

Conference sponsors and collaborators

Part II. Urban and community forests - Improve the quality of life for all citizens where they live and work

1.Use trees and vegetation to enhance community pride and identity

2. Create a better understanding of the biological, psychological and cultural connections

to the ecological systems that sustain our lives

3. Social, economic, environmental and aesthetic value of trees and community fores

4. Development of multicultural professional training and educational programs related to urban forestry

            5. Foster self-sustaining municipal forestry programs and volunteer-based organizations

6. Urban forestry funding from traditional and nontradition sources

7. Partnerships that include the private sector to the creation of new jobs and contribute to healthier economies\

Part III. Urban and community forestry for and with minority and underserved population - key elements for facilitating change

 1.      Involving minority and underserved audiences in the development and delivery of urban forestry messages

 2.      Improving public and private UCF and arboriculture services in minority and underserved communities for purpose of improving economic, social, and environmental health

 3.  Assessing the value of trees and forests to multicultural populations

 4.      Improving the ratio of minority and underserved population in the urban and community forestry workforce

 5.      Economic benefits and costs of the urban forests in low income and non-low income

communities, American Forests

6.      Coping with poverty and the value of nature in urban public housing, University of

Illinois (William C. Sullivan)

7.      Growing hope: children, tree, and urban public housing, University of Illinois

8.      Native American urban/community forestry technical and cultural transfer project,

Natural Path Forestry Consultants, Inc,

9.      The impact of urban forests on elderly people in long-term setting: a multicultural

perspective,

10. Trees and traditions of Native Americans, TREES Forever

11.  Using community-based urban forestry to create new jobs for lower-income urban

residents: a national demonstrative and innovative project. Community Resources, Inc,

12.  Examining ethnic differences and shifts in urban forestry attitude through group design of scale models, UTMS

13.  A multicultural survey of the influences of childhood environmental experiences on

forestry, Washington State University

Part IV. Foster self-sustaining municipal forestry programs and volunteer-based organizations – National, regional, and local UFC organizations – working together with minority and under served communities to facilitate change

            American Forests

National Alliance for Community trees

Community’s Committee for 7^th American Forest Congress      

International Society of Arboriculture

Society of American Foresters

MANRRS

Baton Rouge Green

Louisiana Urban Forestry Council

Part V. Improving public services in minority and underserved communities for purpose of improving economic, social, and environmental health - Federal agencies – working together with minority and under served communities to facilitate change

NUCFAC

USDA Forest Service (FS) Civil Right Unit

USDA FS region 6,

USDA region 8

USDA Center for Urban Forest Research

USGS National Wetlands Research Center

USDOI National Park Service

USDOI-BLM

USDOI Fish and Wildlife Service

USEPA Urban Heat Island Consortium

USDA NRCS National Plant Data Center

 Part IV. Minority perception and involvement (information will be gathered at the conference)

            Strategies by which the UCF programs can increase the quality of life in minority communities

Techniques for improving minority involvement in UCF and resources available

Policy issues identified

Message and strategies development

Research needs

Support needs

Part IIV. Improving the ratio of minority and underserved population in the urban and community forestry workforce-career opportunities

            Federal, state and local government

Private industries

Urban forestry, community forestry, arboriculture, and forestry

Community UCF programs

Community UCF organizations

Volunteerism

Appendix

Lists of the conference participants

Conference steering/organizing committee

Local arrangement committee

Conference program