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Next GGuT meeting in 2008:
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Links to:
Health Care Design
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Links
Links of members are available within the German membership section. There are presently 115 German speaking members in middle Europe and Argentina
- Social Farming
www.sofar-d.de - American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA)
www.ahta.org - 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 - 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
C.Pollard, HTM - An overview of organizations and activities focusing on the improvement of Health by means of Nature / 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 - Animal Assisted Therapy (Website in German: Tiergestützte Therapie)
www.tiergestuetzte-therapie.de - 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:
- http://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
Health Care Design