The network helps practitioners learn, connect and share.
This network can be a voice, advocate and potential professional body for the developing sector and will:
- Establish some of the key standards and quality assurance needed for partners, funders, commissioners, participants and practitioners to feel that they are offering a safe, effective and professional service.
- Be a place that supports and encourages practitioners, organisations, projects and places to deliver the best possible service to their communities.
- Landing Page | Nature & Health Prac (natureandhealthpractitioners.com)
As well as the main network, several special interest groups have formed:
- Children and Young People
- Nature in Statutory Practice and Allies
- Nature-based Psychotherapy
- NASP intro to green social prescribing
- University of Exeter: Nature on Prescription Handbook
- Naturally Birmingham wellbeing guides for users and practitioners
- NHS Green social prescribing toolkit
- University of Derby – Nature Connection Handbook
- University of Derby – 5 pathways to nature connection video
- University of Derby – Nature connectedness blog
- NHS Guidance: Social prescribing- applying All Our health 2022
- NHS Guidance: Social prescribing and community based support 2020
- Quality assurance for social prescribing guidance – NASP/ TCV
- Generation Green – activities for connecting young people to nature (can be used by less young people too!)
- Thriving with Nature guide – WWF and mental health foundation
- Wild Minds podcast on spotify
- University of Derby nature resources – series of activities to support nature connectedness
- Nature Well approach
- University of Derby’s free online Nature Connectedness course: https://www.derby.ac.uk/short-courses-cpd/online/free-courses/nature-connectedness-relationship-with-nature/
- Office for national statistics (ONS) personal wellbeing survey questions
- NASP webinar – evaluating social prescribing
- How to build a Theory of Change and templates
- Better Evaluation’ guidance
- NHS evaluation toolkit
- Tools for measuring nature connectedness include the nature connectedness scale and the nature connection index.
- NASP podcast – what is the evidence on social prescribing?
- 2022 – NASP nature and health benefits evidence reviews
- Connection to Nature
- Links between natural environments and mental health
- Links between natural environments and physical activity
- Links between natural environments and physiological health
- Links between natural environments and obesity
- Mughal R., Seers H., Polley M., Sabey A. & Chatterjee H.J. (2022) How the natural environment can support health and wellbeing through social prescribing. NASP
- NASP who is and isn’t being referred to social prescribing evidence review
- NASP accessibility of social prescribing to people from Black, Asian and ethnically diverse minority groups evidence review
- MIND – how nature benefits mental health
- Two hour ‘nature dose’ boosts health and wellbeing – European Centre for Environment and Human Health | ECEHH
- Nature-based outdoor activities for mental and physical health: Systematic review and meta-analysis – ScienceDirect
- GSP Final Evaluation Report Summary Jan 2024
- A-Prescription-For-Nature-The-Evidence-Base