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CAPRA
In its 30th year, CAPRA grew at the
2024 NRPA Annual Conference in Atlanta,
exceeding 212 accredited agencies
with 11 new agencies joining the ranks
after 2024 hearings.
Many of the original standards
were more of a check box. [We]
felt it was important in our work
that all standards should be relevant
and embodied in the culture
of the agency. Once embodied in
the culture it is a way of operating
an agency and just not another
task or project to complete. "
The goals of this activity were
to clarify and streamline the standards,
removing any ambiguity and
redundancies; identify best practices
for agencies of all sizes; include
values of diversity, inclusion, equity,
conservation, sustainability and improvement
as interwoven themes;
and establish improvement tracking
for every review cycle. " The impetus
for the reimagination of CAPRA
standards was rooted in the idea that
high-performing accredited agencies
should be living and breathing accreditation,
with continuous cycles
of evidence-based decision making, "
according to Bartnik. " Understanding
that all agencies are built
differently, we wanted to make the
standards more flexible and based
on the agency's role in the community,
therefore, making accreditation
more attainable for a wider array of
agency sizes and types. "
The RTF completed its first draft
of these new standards in fall 2022,
and they were shared with NRPA
staff and select CAPRA volunteers
for internal review in January
2023. After revisions were made
based on feedback from the internal
review, the new standards were
shared with the
entire CAPRA
community as part of an external
review in April 2023. In September
2023,
the CAPRA Commission
finalized the beta test version of
these new standards, bringing the
total number down to 68 from the
154 included in the 2019 version.
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The CAPRA Commission considered
a list of active CAPRA
agencies with 2025 or 2026 review
dates when identifying a small
number of agencies from that
group to beta test this new set of
standards. This group includes
a geographically diverse group
of agencies of varying sizes and
started work preparing for a 2025
evaluation with the new standards.
The CAPRA Commission
will publish a final version of the
new standards at the 2025 NRPA
Annual Conference once the beta
test year has ended. Just like the
first group of six agencies that
beta tested the original CAPRA
standards in 1994, this group's experiences
will inform how the new
standards and related processes
are communicated to the entire
CAPRA community to prepare
for CAPRA's next 30 years.
Jennifer Schleining is CAPRA
Accreditation Senior Manager at NRPA
(jschleining@nrpa.org).
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https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/january-2024
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/december-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/november-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/october-2023
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https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/august-2023
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https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/january-2023
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/december-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/november-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/october-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/september-2022
https://ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRecreationMagazine/august-2022
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