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Welcome to the Families, Parks and Recreation (FPR) web site. We have 115 locations to serve you throughout the City of Orlando. These locations include 83 Parks, 17 Park & Recreation Centers, 2 Older Adult Recreation Centers, 7 After-School All-Star locations, 4 Special Facilities and 2 Trails. See the FPR directory for a complete list.

Seedlings for Civil Rights: Monday, January 18th, 9-12 p.m. Please join the City of Orlando on this day of remembrance in honor of Marin Luther King, Jr. Volunteers are needed to cleanup, green up (plant trees), and spruce up the Callahan Neighborhood on this day of service. Several free social services will also be on site. The meeting location is the Downtown Recreation Complex at 649 W. Livingston Street. All supplies will be provided including water, light snacks, lunch (for participating volunteers only).

Trail of Trees, Starring Tim Womick: Friday, January 22nd at 10 a.m., Orlando Museum of Art. Come celebrate Florida Arbor Day by taking advantage of this FREE special program for children and their families! This is a day off for Orange County Public Schools. Click here for the flyer for additional information.

City of Orlando pledged to replace the 10,000 trees lost to the 2004 hurricanes by 2010. Please join Mayor Dyer when we reach that goal on Thursday, December 17th

Click here for more information about the CityKidz! fundraiser.

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Lisa Early, Director

Lisa Early, Director of Families, Parks and Recreation, has worked with the City of Orlando since November 2003, when she was appointed as the City's first Director of Children & Education. Prior to that, Lisa Early worked helping children in the United States and abroad. After graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University in 1981, Ms. Early moved to the Dominican Republic, where she worked with UNICEF to develop preschool education programs for children living in rural villages. Next, she worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development, overseeing programs to improve the health of mothers and children living in poverty. Upon her return to the United States in 1990, Ms. Early developed and became Executive Director of The Howard Phillips Center for Children & Families, which under her leadership grew from a $1 million organization to a $12 million entity helping Orlando’s children overcome developmental delays, protecting them from abuse, providing them healthcare when uninsured, and offering hope to HIV-positive women, children and families. Ms. Early is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and also speaks some Swahili.