This award to healthy schools campaign (HSC) will support space to grow, chicago's green schoolyards initiative and an innovative response to the impacts of climate change and historic disinvestment…

This award to healthy schools campaign (HSC) will support space to grow, chicago's green schoolyards initiative and an innovative response to the impacts of climate change and historic disinvestment on chicago neighborhoods, schools and students. The schoolyards use green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) to boost community resilience in historically under-invested, flood-prone communities in chicago. HSC's work ensures that each space to grow school community has a voice in the design and plans for their new schoolyard, provides nature-based and climate resilience education to foster generations of environmental stewards and works to ensure the GSI is well maintained over time. This project will enable HSC staff to: -- engage and work closely with students (under guidance of their teachers and parents/caregivers), educators, school staff, parents, caregivers and community members to implement a community design process for at least 25 new space to grow schoolyards. -- provide educa