Fort Worth Climate Safe Neighborhood Coalition
In collaboration with community members, students, academic scholars, and practice partners, we aim to advance park equity while supporting climate health. Brief history: In May 2022, community partners formed the Fort Worth Climate Safe Neighborhood Coalition, whose strategic goal is to increase equitable access to safe, sustainable green space and to advance tree equity and extend environmental knowledge throughout Fort Worth. The first meeting of our Coalition took place at Glenwood Park, the green space that has been the focus of our park advocacy efforts from the start.
About Glenwood Park
Glenwood Park is a historic 37-acre park in southeast Fort Worth, less than 6 miles from TCU campus. We’ve hosted several events, which have included health promotion activities, clean-up, and also a bioblitz where we took inventory of all of the natural resources inside the park! See our News tab for more details and to see what we’ve accomplished together with community volunteers. Partly as a result of these efforts, the City of Fort Worth dedicated $75,000 to develop a master plan for Glenwood Park, hiring a landscape architecture firm, Land Design.
We are advocating for the Glenwood Park master plan with the Southside community and park users. If approved by the Park & Recreation Advisory Board, this plan will be included in the 2026 bond package in local elections. Progress is happening! In the fall of 2024 and early 2025, Land Design architects and staff held public sessions to get ideas and bring them to life - they have shared their ideas with the community again and incorporated revisions. In late March 2025, the master plan was presented to the Park & Recreation Advisory Board. View the Glenwood Park Master Plan presentation overview . This plan will be up for vote for endorsement by the Advisory Board on Wed, April 23, 2025. Please see the Events tab for details.
Infographics:
Community input on Glenwood Park
Safe Walking Routes to Glenwood Park
**Infographics developed by TCU Nursing students in fulfillment of their Public Health Nursing clinical course in Spring 2024
Photos below are from previous clean-up events (starting in Oct 2022) and a Health & Environment Expo in April 2024
