Courses
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Aquatics 1: Principles Of Aquatics Management
In this course, learners will begin to examine aquatics and aquatics management. Learn More$59.00 -
Aquatics 2: Personnel And Training
In the Aquatics 2: Personnel and Training course, you will examine the aquatics team. The various positions that make up the aquatics team will be described to enable you to identify key positions that are necessary to make your aquatics facility work effectively and efficiently. Learn More$59.00 -
Aquatics 3: Risk Management
This course focuses on ways to reduce or eliminate risks in aquatic spaces. Risks inherent to aquatic spaces and various codes that regulate aquatic facilities will be reviewed. Learn More$59.00 -
Evaluating A Minimum Requirements Analysis
This course is designed to assist individuals charged with approving Minimum Requirements Analyses (MRAs). The stories and case studies presented in this course are based on real cases and real MRAs. Learn More
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Facility Management 1: Introduction to Facility Management Practices
Assets are the building blocks for the Facility Management industry. This course will introduce you to the concept and underlying theory of the Asset Management Process. Learn More$59.00 -
Facility Management 2: Metrics and Data Driven Decision Making
A specific step in the Asset Management Process is creating an inventory of all your assets in order to determine the importance of those assets and their condition using a balanced scorecard approach. Learn More$59.00 -
Facility Management 3: Conducting Condition Assessments
Learn how to conduct condition assessments, the first step in addressing maintenance backlogs and more efficiently managing your facility. Learn More$59.00 -
Facility Management 4: Creating a Scope of Work
This course focuses on the concept of a “scope of work” and explains how a good scope of work sets the rules for a project and makes an accurate cost estimate possible. Learn More$59.00 -
Facility Management 5 - Basics of Cost Estimating
Learn about cost estimating, a tool to help key personnel make informed decisions during preliminary budgetary planning. Learn More$59.00 -
Foundations of Interpretation
All over the world docents, park guides, and naturalists at museums, parks, zoos, and cultural and historical sites strive to provide meaningful experiences for visitors. Interpretation is the essential tool they use. Learn MoreFree -
Fundamentals of Park Safety Certificate
Gain skills in recognizing safety and conflict situations in your parks and how to respond and de-escalate conflict.
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Green Park Operations 1: Introduction
Understand the basic principles of sustainability and green park operations as they apply to park operations and maintenance.
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Green Park Operations 4: Programs and People
Understand how internal systems can be improved to best promote and implement green park operations within your organization and community.
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Green Park Operations Certificate Program
Explore cost-saving sustainability best practices to implement as part of your park and public lands operations, and develop ways to reduce your organization’s environment impact.
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Instructor Training Program: Communication
This course will focus on communication theory and provide hands-on skills that you can practice in the classroom to build your communication skills. Learn More$59.00 -
Interpretive Talk
Learn practical steps for creating an effective and well-crafted interpretive talk. Learn More$59.00 -
Introduction to Capital Improvement Programs
This course provides an introduction to capital improvement. Capital improvement is defined and its connections to an agency’s mission are discussed.
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Introduction to the National Park Service: The History of the NPS
Learn about the ideas that formed and later transformed the National Park Service, the people who generated those ideas, and the laws that continue to shape the NPS today. Learn MoreRegular Price: $19.00
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Park Planning 1: System Master Planning Fundamentals
The course will present a simple model of planning that can be modified to meet a variety of community and agency needs. Learn More$59.00 -
Park Planning 2: Public Engagement for System Master Planning
This course focuses on the importance of and methods for getting input from the general public. It will also help you identify which of those methods would be the best fit for your agency and when to use them in the planning process. Learn More$59.00 -
Park Planning 3: Assessing Community Needs
This course focuses on using research methods to define the existing conditions of a parks and recreation system. Learn More$59.00 -
Park Planning 4: Making Your System Master Plan a Success
This course identifies the difference between analyzing and synthesizing information and the purpose each serves in developing strategic action plans. Learn More$59.00 -
Park Safety Recognition
Understand laws, regulations,and agency policiesrelating to health and safety and recognize common health,safety, and conflictsituations that may arise in parks.
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Park Safety Response
Learn about various types of threats and hazards you may encounter as a park employee and strategies for responding to them.
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Project Management for Capital Projects
This course introduces you to industry-standard project management practices, including the phases of project management and useful strategies that keep a project on track.
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Special Use Permitting for Park and Recreation Agencies
This course will help you better understand special use permits and the roles and responsibilities of event monitors.
CEU include free for a limited time!
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Spotlight on Safety: Recognizing Hazards from Opioid Waste and Associated Infectious Diseases
On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. The increase in the availability of opioid drugs is connected with an increase in opioid drug use and opioid related overdoses. Learn more about this epidemic and understand the true impact of opioid abuse.
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Worker Awareness and Protection from Opioid Waste and Associated Infectious Diseases Course Series
Opioids are effective medications for treating pain, but they have a high potential for causing addiction, and some individuals may start misusing opioids, whether that is prescription or illegal opioids. The rapid increase in the use of prescription opioids has led to a dramatic increase in overdoses and overdose deaths. Furthermore, some people who misuse prescription opioids may start using heroin and other illegal substances with similar chemical structures that are cheaper and more readily available.
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Writing A Minimum Requirements Analysis
This course describes the minimum requirements concept and guides users through the process of writing a Minimum Requirements Analysis (MRA) using the Minimum Requirements Decision Guide (MRDG) developed by the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center.
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