Social Prescribing for You & Me

This section crowdsources links to free (or donation-based) local community activities involving movement, nature, art, service, and belonging — medicine proven to help boost our mood, energy, and attention.

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(NOTE: While we’re starting with New York, virtual, or chapter-based organizations, we hope to eventually build a national database with Social Prescribing USA.)

  • Back on My Feet - a group leading biweekly early morning walks and runs to “empower people to achieve economic independence through fitness and community”

    Reboot: - a group leading weekly community dances with silent disco geat o help us “reboot our communities and ourselves”

    GirlTrek - a walking group that aims to “bring health and happiness to the doorsteps of 700 million Black women worldwide”

    Walk with a Doc- a group leading “walking programs in communities around the world led by local doctors, healthcare providers, or medical students”

    Park Run - a free, community event where you can walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate”

    North Brooklyn Runners - a community of runners of all levels facilitating free weekly runs, social events, and local volunteer opportunities


    NYC Parks Programming - a city organization leading swmming lessons, fitness programs, and more

  • McGorlick Bird Club - a neighborhood group leading weekly birdwatching sessions every Saturday at 9am

    Redshed Community Garden - a volunteer-run community organization and public green space.

    GreenThumb - the nation's largest urban gardening program, sustaining over 550 community gardens and supporting thousands of volunteer gardeners throughout New York City

    NYC Parks Programming - a city organization leading bird watching sessions, park ranger programs, and more

    Bronx GreenUp - the community gardening outreach program of The New York Botanical Garden providing horticulture education, training, and technical assistance to Bronx residents, community gardeners, urban farmers, local schools, and community organizations

  • Culture Pass - free passes to 100+ cultural institutions, museums, and attractions across NYC, through New York Public Library

    Musical Instrument Lending Library - a musical instrument lending library enabling adults to rent a musical instrument for up to one month, through New York Public Library

    Gaia Music Collective - a group running “ one-night ensembles… exploring spontaneous songs, rhythms & harmonies as we give voice to the fire within”

    McGorlick Art Club - a plein air (French for open air) style art session with local artist, Saturdays at 9am in McGorlick Park

    The Lullaby Project - a program pairing new and expecting parents and caregivers with professional artists to write and sing personal lullabies for their babies

    CultureDose Sessions (virtual) - an online “slow looking” art experience with wellbeing as its primary focus

  • North Brooklyn Mutual Aid - a community group of neighbors helping neighbors

    GrowNYC - a volunteer group facilitating opportunities to help fellow New Yorkers have equitable access to fresh, locally grown food, neighborhood green spaces, opportunities to reduce waste, and care for the environment

    New York Cares - New York’s largest volunteer organization providing year-round volunteer opportunities around education, hunger, homelessness, green spaces

    Gods Love We Deliver - an organization cooking and home-delivering nutritious, medically tailored meals for people too sick to shop or cook for themselves

    IRC Volunteer Community Interpreter Program - a program that aims to provide language access to help newly arrived refugees and immigrants make informed decisions about their lives, with special interest Arabic, Amharic, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Urdu, Dari, Farsi, Swahili, Tigrinya, Ukrainian, and Russian.

    Redshed Community Garden - a volunteer-run community organization and public green space

    GreenThumb - the nation's largest urban gardening program, sustaining over 550 community gardens and supporting thousands of volunteer gardeners throughout New York City

    Bronx GreenUp - the community gardening outreach program of The New York Botanical Garden providing horticulture education, training, and technical assistance to Bronx residents, community gardeners, urban farmers, local schools, and community organizations

  • Skip the Small Talk - a group offering in-person and online meetups, using psycholcgical research-backed techniques to help people “interact more genuinely and feel more connected to each other in their daily lives.”

    Living Room Conversations - a group offering in-person and online meetups that aim to connect people across divides and within communities to build understanding through conversation

    Life Story Club - a group organizing small social clubs for older adults to share life stories

    Charlas Spanish Language Exchange - A Spanish Convo Club meeting every Saturday at 1 pm to practice speaking Spanish

Prescribe Yourself Series

Introducing the "PRESCRIBE YOURSELF" YouTube series—profiling the free or low-cost local community activities that reconnect us to one of the five core medicines explored in The Connection Cure: movement, nature, art, service, and belonging.

COMING SOON:

This section will feature our crowdsourced DSM — before-and-after testimonies from people who’ve prescribed themselves movement, nature, art, service, and belonging.

Submit your story here.