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Detroit school horticulture program receives national award

April 18, 2017 • 2 Comments

The Charles Drew Transition Center has become a national model for methodology and programs developed to educate special education students in the areas of Horticulture Science.

The Charles R. Drew Horticulture Program has been named the recipient of a 2017 Magna Award, sponsored by the National School Board Association. This award recognizes the Drew Horticulture Program as one of five innovative programs nationwide recognized for outstanding content, student involvement, and impact on school culture and local community.

For more than 20 years, the Magna Awards has been a national recognition program that honors innovative programs that advance student learning. Drew’s Horticulture Program was chosen for this highly prestigious award from among more than 2,650 applicants submitted from across the country.

Horticulture as therapy

March 9, 2012 • Leave a Comment

NPR:

If you haven’t noticed, gardens are popping up in some unconventional places – from prison yards to retirement and veteran homes to programs for troubled youth.

Most are handy sources of fresh and local food, but increasingly they’re also an extension of therapy for people with mental health issues, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD; depression; and anxiety.

It’s called horticultural therapy. And some doctors, psychologists and occupational therapists are now at work to test whether building, planting, and harvesting a garden can be a therapeutic process in its own right.

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