But Who's Keeping SCORE.Offered for your statistical enjoyment The exercise of a right; the possession and fruition of a right or privilege. Comfort, consolation, contentment, ease, happiness, pleasure, and satisfaction. Such includes the beneficial use, interest, and purpose to which property may be put, and implies right to profits and income : the NRPA NRPA National Recreation and Park Association NRPA Natural Resources Protective Association (Staten Island, NY) NRPA Niagara Regional Police Association (Canada) NRPA National Rifle and Pistol Association Professional Development scoreboard, a running "everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask" venture. This list will be updated periodically in Parks & Recreation magazine. Professional Education/Training Programs Number of persons attending NRPA training programs in 1998: 8,946(*) Number of CEUs awarded in 1998: 7,576.1(*) Number of training sessions scheduled for the 1999 Congress: 275 Academic Accreditation (Council on Accreditation) Current number of accredited programs in North America: 98 Anticipated programs to be accredited in October 1999:2 Number of trained visitors: 55 State with the most accredited programs: California (9) Agency Accreditation (Commission for Accreditation of Park and Recreation Agencies) Current number of accredited agencies: 21 Anticipated programs to be accredited in October 1999:3 Number of trained visitors: 71 States with the most accredited agencies: Florida, Illinois, Indiana, and Kansas (2) Professional Certification (National Certification Board) Number of Certified Leisure Professionals (CLP): 5,647 Number of Provisional Leisure Professionals (PLP): 278 Number of Certified Leisure Associates (CLA): 318 Number of nationwide CLP examination locations for 1999:44 Number taking/passing the CLP examination in 1998:440/371 (84%) "Benefits" of Park and Recreation Training Number of certified Benefits-Based Management mentors: 25 Number of certified Benefits-Based Programming mentors: 71 Playground Safety (National Playground Safety Institute) Current number of Certified Playground Safety Inspectors (CPSI): 4,352 Number of NPSI training sites scheduled for 1999:42 Current number of NPSI instructors: 11 Aquatic Management Current number of certified Aquatic Facility Operators (AFO): 4,173 Current number of certified AFO instructors: 57 Number of AFO courses offered in FY98/99:42 New Professional Development Publications in 1999:6 Benefits-Based Management/Program: 2 Economic-impact topics: 1 Administration topics: 1 Historic perspective topics: 1 Playground safety: 1 Job Bulletin/Job Mart Annual subscriptions to Job Bulletin (printed format): 1,172 Average monthly "hits" of Job Bulletin page on NRPAnet: 13,247 Job Bulletin page rank as to number of hits on NRPAnet: 1 Number of job postings anticipated for the 1999 Congress Job Mart: 175 Joseph Lee Memorial Library and Archives Current number of library holdings (books, periodicals): 5,000-plus Current thesis/dissertation holdings: 225 Current audiovisual tapes: 307 Current archival holdings: 449 boxes (*) Note: Numbers would be significantly higher if 1998 Congress had taken place3 |
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