The Horticultural Therapy Program is currently housed at Cawaco RC&D Council offices in Birmingham, Alabama.
What is Horticultural Therapy?
Horticultural Therapy is a treatment modality used to address an individual’s psychosocial, cognitive, physical disabilities through exposure to nature and plants. Nature related activities such as digging, trimming, watering, and taking care of plants offer relief from physical and cognitive limitations, help to reduce stress, allows gentle exercise for aging individuals, and memory stimulation. Frankly, it also renews and refreshes.
High School Level Program
HTP uses horticultural therapy to assist high school students, which have special needs, in attain skills such as social interaction skills, exposure to out-of-classroom environments, confidence, and character building skills that are needed to function in society. Such skills and knowledge are conveyed to the students through a common interest in plants and the nature that surrounds their world.
The mission revolves around three main goals:
- To advance and foster a reconnection with nature
- To engage in plant related activities that will promote self esteem, self reliance, and self respect
- To make this program available to all regardless of age, physical, or developmental limitations
For more information please contact our office at (205) 264-8463