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Families, Parks and Recreation
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Recreation
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Harry P.
Leu Gardens
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Welcome to the Families, Parks and Recreation (FPR) web site. We have 115 locations to serve you throughout the City of Orlando. These locations include 83 Parks, 17 Park & Recreation Centers, 2 Older Adult Recreation Centers, 7 After-School All-Star locations, 4 Special Facilities and 2 Trails. See the FPR directory for a complete list. Join us in celebrating World Environmental Day on June 5, 2010 at Central Florida Veteran’s Memorial Park, with an early morning 5k run followed by a festival featuring tree climbing, butterfly release, Trail of Trees presentation with Tim Womick, and more! Save the date - we will need volunteers to help clean-up the Area C Mountain Bike Park site at 8 a.m. on Saturday July 10th, 2010. Click here for more information on the Area C Mountain Bike Park project Click here for more information about the CityKidz! fundraiser. Cultural Park Conceptual Masterplan Families, Parks and Recreation Vision Plan 2010 Lake Fairview Park & Trotters Park Conceptual Master Plan Lisa Early, Director Lisa Early, Director of Families, Parks and Recreation, has worked with the City of Orlando since November 2003, when she was appointed as the City's first Director of Children & Education. Prior to that, Lisa Early worked helping children in the United States and abroad. After graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University in 1981, Ms. Early moved to the Dominican Republic, where she worked with UNICEF to develop preschool education programs for children living in rural villages. Next, she worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development, overseeing programs to improve the health of mothers and children living in poverty. Upon her return to the United States in 1990, Ms. Early developed and became Executive Director of The Howard Phillips Center for Children & Families, which under her leadership grew from a $1 million organization to a $12 million entity helping Orlando’s children overcome developmental delays, protecting them from abuse, providing them healthcare when uninsured, and offering hope to HIV-positive women, children and families. Ms. Early is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and also speaks some Swahili. |
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