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WHAT is the Financial Sustainability Certification Program?

The Financial Sustainability Certification Program is designed to enhance and accelerate career growth for park and recreation professionals. This intensive program will address complex issues including the pressing need to practice financial discipline and acknowledge the responsibility park and recreation professionals have as stewards of taxpayer dollars.

As park and recreation professionals, we are privileged to be the stewards of taxpayer dollars. Each and every day we get to spend their money. What a responsibility! We hold in our hands the power to impact communities by how we manage these resources. How we spend, how we generate revenues, and how we work to create a financially sustainable future for our organizations and for the field of parks and recreation.

Approximately 15 hours of course content will be provided to participating professionals affording them the opportunity to acquire 1.5 continuing education units (CEUs).

Program Format = 18 contact hours including 15 hours of content (1.5 CEUs)

Day 1 (Feb. 21st): 8:30 am – Check-in begins; 9 am – 4 pm (includes lunch and two, 15 minute breaks)

Day 2 (Feb. 22nd): 9 am – 4 pm (includes lunch and two, 15 minute breaks)

Day 3 (Feb. 23rd): 9 am – 12 pm (includes two, 15 minute breaks)

Learn more about the Financial Sustainability Certification Program HERE!

Thank you to Supporting Host Sponsors:

• 110 Percent
• Landscape Structures
• Productive Parks

Program Instructor: Jamie Sabbach

Jamie has spent her entire adult life serving the public park and recreation profession. Afforded opportunities few will ever have, she has been a practitioner, an educator, and consultant. She speaks from a place of experience, realism, and observation.

Jamie has taught hundreds of professional development and training programs across North America and Europe and has had the privilege of testifying in front of the United States Congress on the critical importance of public lands and recreation.

She currently works alongside organizations from coast to coast assisting them in creating financially sustainable service models for their communities. She also teaches financial management at Indiana University in the School of Public Health’s masters program.