Horticultural therapy information for professionals
What is horticultural therapy? Take a look at this overview, then make use of the resources below.
News
Supervising Horticultural Therapy Student Internships Workshop
Supervising Horticultural Therapy Student Internships Workshop will take place in Portland, Oregon on July 13 and August 3, 2013. Check out the details below:
2013 Legacy Therapeutic Gardens Tour
Legacy Health - PCC Therapeutic Horticulture professional training
2013 Therapeutic Garden Design Team Workshop
Learn about therapeutic garden characteristics, design elements, roles of the design team, facility team composition, therapeutic activities, garden care, and evaluation to support activity programs and rehabilitation therapies.
Register for the 2013 Legacy Garden Design Team Workshop
Conference handouts
These are handouts from conference presentations by Legacy horticultural therapist Teresia Hazen. You may download and print them for personal use.
Garden photos
These photographs of Legacy gardens may be used free of charge in educational presentations. Please credit Legacy Health.
Legacy's teaching program
Legacy is the only U.S. healthcare organization to offer the AHTA Core Curriculum HT-specific coursework to prepare horticultural students for:
- Nursing homes
- Assisted living
- Residential care
- Day care
- Recreation programs
- Vocational horticulture programs
- Other health and human service settings
For more information on the core curriculum or horticultural therapy, please contact Teresia Hazen at 503-413-6507
More about Teresia Hazen
Other programs in horticultural therapy
Below are PDFs of information about various programs in horticultural therapy by Legacy horticultural therapist Teresia Hazen. You may download and print them for personal use:
Resources
Following is a space in which we will place a list of books, websites and other resources to assist with horticulture therapy: