Parks for People/Recreation & Parks Programming
ParkWorks works with The City of Cleveland Recreation Centers, Cuyahoga County, and local community development corporations to provide additional recreation programming opportunities for Cleveland's families and youth. Parks for People has been an important source for parks programming since 1994.

Why organized park programming is important
These activities offer the community an opportunity to celebrate their local parks as community grounds - they weave connections between neighborhood organizations and their parks. Such programming for youth can develop life skills and positive social development. As more people take part in park programs, there is a change in the way they feel about their parks and their neighborhoods.

Recent and current park programming

• In partnership with the Friends of Forest Hill Park and the City of Cleveland's Parks, Recreation, and Properties Department, together with generous funding from the Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, ParkWorks has coordinated quality parks programming at Forest Hills Park since 1996. Events have included Make a Kite; Arts in the Park; Nature Week; Health Walk 2000; and Worship in the Park. The popular Sundays in the Park feature great music, games, and activities. In partnership with the Northeastern Ohio Development Corporation, Walter Burks Park also enjoys daily programming,with expanded offerings made possible by funds from Cuyahoga County.
  
• Working together with the City of Cleveland's recreation centers, field trips for youth include the Cleveland MetroParks and the Ohio-Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor. The Ohio-Erie Canal field trips include scenic train rides along the Corridor, the Tour du Corridor bike riding event, a "Behind the Scenes" visit to the Brandywine Ski Area, and a Fishing Derby at the CanalWay Center. ParkWorks will use a newly acquired vehicle to conduct National Heritage Corridor outreach to the recreation centers.
  
• With funding from Cuyahoga County, additional Cleveland recreation center activities include visits to the Western Reserve Historical Society to research neighborhood history; a summer lunchtime reading program, A Cultural Exchange, that serves 1,600 children; and NEORSD's Wonderful Water Camp.
  
• Together with the Bellaire-Puritas Development Corporation, the West 130th Youth Environmental Club has been established.