What are the Benefits of The Green Space Project?
- creates a living environment that deemphasizes institutional aspects and reflects a rehabilitative mission which promotes positive personal change
- helps build a sense of community by creating outdoor group meeting spaces which can accommodate Mental Health and Peer to Peer groups
- improves the overall mental health of the prison population and creates significantly expanded wheelchair access for activities on the inner exercise yard to accommodate the increased wheelchair population on Facility E
- creates a structurally supported environment for the service dog program
What’s included in the project?
- Full Sized Trees and Flower Areas
- Service Dog Run With Shower Station & Fountain
- Outdoor Classrooms
- Welcome Exhibit Area
- Turf/DG/Concrete Installation On Selected Areas Of The Exercise Yard
- Interior trail to Accommodate Wheelchairs
- Colored Ground Cover Plants in Selected Areas
- Railroad Tie Service Dog Shade Stations
- Elimination Area for Dogs to Relieve Themselves
- Two Social Circle Areas Used For Mental Health Group Gatherings
What is my donation paying for?
This complex and expansive project requires a large number of materials and quite a lot of equipment. In these areas, your donations are critical to the success of the project. Thank you in advance for your generosity.
MATERIALS
- Artificial Grass (green sand filler)
- Bender Board/ Plastic Composite Anchors/ Screws/ Staples/ Turf Seam Glue
- Colored Decomposed Granite
- Concrete premixed
- Yellow Sand
- Clay/ Dirt
- Colorful Groundcover Plants
- Wooden Railroad Ties with See Thru Shade Tarp for Service Dog
- Service Dog Shower Station
- Rock & Concrete Sphere Elements
- Service Dog Water Fountains
- Trees and flower plants
- Mural paint supplies
EQUIPMENT
- Industrial Staple Gun
- Concrete Curb Making Machine
- Standard Equipment for Artificial Grass Installation
- Electric Compactor Plate Machine
- Electric Power Drill
- Power Broom
- General Landscape Equipment
- Standard Equipment For Concrete Installation
- Standard Garden Equipment For Groundcover Plant Installation