Marketwire.com // Launch of Healing Trees Project
Tree Canada, in partnership with the W. Garfield Weston Foundation launched their Healing Trees project today in Toronto at Shaw Park at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
Healing Trees is a project that seeks to establish the relationship between trees and human health including psychological well-being through signage, benches and the judicious planting of trees. The project also evaluated and provided recommendations for the long term maintenance of the trees in Shaw Park at 1001 Queen St. West, Toronto which is presently owned by CAMH. A new sign has been inaugurated, explaining the benefits of urban trees to residents.
A famous Chicago study showed that when comparing two public housing projects, one treed and one not treed, the untreed project showed statistically higher rates of Attention Deficit Order, graffiti vandalism and domestic violence. Other studies have also shown that hospital patients heal quicker when they are able to look out on greenspace.
