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Volunteers Needed By Friends Of The Wissahickon For Park User Survey
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The Friends of the Wissahickon is in need of volunteers to help conduct the most comprehensive park survey of the Wissahickon Valley ever undertaken. My Park Counts includes, for the first time, state-of-the-art mechanical counters as well as observational information and personal interviews.
To determine the number of park visitors, TrafX trail counters have been installed at over a dozen sites park-wide by Atlantic Social Research Corporation. Volunteers are needed to perform observational counts at these entrances to ensure the accuracy of the mechanical counters and collect basic demographic information on park users who pass their observation point.
FOW volunteers will also administer short surveys to collect information on park user experience at key exit points to the park. Working in pairs while in the park, volunteers will be asked to participate in three-hour sessions twice a month through the end of February 2012.
This is the first time a survey of this depth has been conducted in Wissahickon Valley Park. FOW volunteers developed and conducted a park user count and opinion survey in 1993 and implemented a professionally designed park user opinion survey in 2007.
Developed and implemented in conjunction with Atlantic Social Research Corporation, this one-year long park user survey will determine seasonal and annual park usership counts, park-related activities among different groups, and attitudes and perceptions among local and non-local visitors to the park.
The data collected will help FOW and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation take more effective action in designing capital investment, programming, and outreach strategies, as well as minimizing user-conflict.
My Park Counts is also available online at FOW’s website and takes 3-4 minutes to complete. Park users who complete the survey in the park or online will be entered into a drawing in mid 2012 for a free iPad and one of ten free annual FOW memberships (includes choice of t-shirt or hat).
Visit the Friends of the Wissahickon website to take the survey.
Training Session
FOW will hold an information and training session for interested volunteers on November 30 from 6 to 7 p.m. at the FOW office at 8708 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia. For more information or to register for this session, contact Kevin Groves, FOW Volunteer Coordinator, by sending email to: groves@fow.org or call 215-247-0417.
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11/7/2011 |
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