Woodbury Launches Mobile Recreation Program for Underserved Communities
The City of Woodbury has launched M.O.R.E. (Mobile On-Site Recreation Experience), a new mobile recreation program designed to bring free activities directly to underserved neighborhoods throughout the city.
The pilot program will visit six locations over four weeks, with staff spending an hour and a half at each park once per week. The initiative targets children ages 5-16 who may face financial or transportation barriers to participating in traditional recreation programs.
According to program details, M.O.R.E. will offer sports activities, arts and crafts, and yard games in an open-house format where children can participate for as long as they want. The mobile program will bring obstacle courses, soccer nets, basketballs and giant yard games to underused spaces that haven't previously hosted recreation programming.
The Woodbury Recreation Department created the program to reach participants who haven't engaged with city recreation services before, either due to cost barriers, transportation issues, or lack of awareness about existing programs. Officials said the mobile approach aims to create neighborhood pride while introducing families to the city's broader recreation offerings.
The Recreation Department plans to evaluate the pilot program for potential expansion to additional parks and locations in future years, according to the presentation.
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[0:04] The mobile
[0:04] on-site recreation experience
aka M.O.R.E. is a mobile
[0:08] based recreation program
[0:10] that will be traveling
around the city of Woodbury,
[0:13] bringing recreation
activities to the community.
[0:18] We created this program
to reach participants
[0:20] who maybe haven't participated
in our programs before,
[0:23] due to financial barriers
or transportation barriers,
[0:27] or not knowing that
our programs existed.
[0:29] So by taking a mobile approach,
[0:31] we're able
to bring our programing out
[0:32] into the community and create
neighborhood pride and use
[0:36] underused spaces that maybe
haven't seen programs before.
[0:41] So the pilot program
[0:41] is currently only four weeks
at six different locations
[0:45] around the city.
[0:46] We are going to be there
for an hour and a half each day.
[0:49] Each park once a week,
[0:50] but we are hoping
to grow the program
[0:52] to more parks and more locations
[0:53] throughout the next upcoming
years.
[0:56] Kids can just show up
and it's an open house style
[0:59] where they are able to come and
play for as long as they want
[1:03] and choose what they want to do.
[1:04] But we also have set structure.
[1:05] This program offers
different sports
[1:07] activities and arts and crafts
as well as yard games,
[1:11] giant yard games,
we’ll bring different
[1:12] obstacle courses
as well to different programs
[1:15] as well as like soccer nets
and basketballs.
[1:17] Different programs for different
recreational opportunities.
[1:21] We offer our
[1:22] programs for ages
5 to 16 year old children.
[1:25] This is a free program
to the community.
[1:27] I feel this program
[1:28] will bring lots of opportunity
for community engagement,
[1:32] friendships,
meeting new residents,
[1:35] and then also introducing
Woodbury recreation programs
[1:39] to participants
that maybe haven't
[1:40] participated
in our activities before,
[1:42] so that we can continue
to create a sense of community
[1:46] within
our recreation activities.
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