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Links of members are available within the German membership section. There are presently 128 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 - COST Action 866 Green Care in Agriculture
www.umb.no/ - Horticultural Therapy England (THRIVE)
www.thrive.org.uk - International people-plant-interaction resource center, College for Tropical Agriculture and Human Ressources
www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/hiih/therapy.asp - Social Farming
www.sofar-d.de - 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/ - Awaji Landscape Planing and Horticulture Academy
www.awaji.ac.jp - Horticultural Therapy West-Japan
www.htwest-japan - 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 - 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 - Stichting GroenZorg
Stichting GroenZorg - The Therapeutic Landscapes Resource Center, 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 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/
Links of organisations and individuals ... and Conferences
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.
Tuin(ieren), groenvoorziening en natuur in Gezondheids- en Ouderenzorg
Health Care Design