About the Built Environment and the Outdoors Summit

Now in its ninth year, the Kansas Built Environment and the Outdoors Summit creates an experience that allows stakeholders and advocates to accelerate their efforts to improve the built environment and thereby improve health. The built environment refers to the ways in which the structures and systems of a community – whether a large city or small rural town – guides the countless daily decisions that contribute to overall health and well-being. The Summit strives to bring together everyone who has a stake in the built environment; e.g., planners, builders, health professionals, park professionals, just to name a few. Such an opportunity for shared learning helps to foster the partnerships and collaborations necessary to translate conference ideas and inspiration into concrete action steps and change back at home. Two hundred people attended the highly successful 2014 BEOS in Wichita, Kansas.

Notable past BEOS presenters include: Ed McMahon, Mark Winne, Drs. Ruth Ann and Paul Atchely, Heather Wooten, Dr. Michael Wesch, Jay Walljasper, Richard Louv, Mark Fenton, Chuck Flink, Dan Burden, Richard Jackson, M.D., Darwin Hindman, Fran Mainella and Barry Weiss.