Nutrition, Fitness, and Leisure

Recreation Therapy uses purposeful, structured activities to help
improve psychological and physical health, social skills, and quality of life.

At Parkside, Recreational Therapists offer patients arts and crafts, community
outings, fitness, leisure education, and cooperative games.  Recreational
Therapists will use the issues that surface during activities to help patients
develop better insight, judgment, and interpersonal skills.

Meet Our Recreation Therapists

Millicent Nole, CTRS Millicent has been a certified Recreation Therapist since 2000 and has worked with a variety of populations including geriatrics, physical rehabilitation, and psychiatry.  She has been with Parkside since September 2003.  Millicent earned her Bachelor's degree in Leisure Studies from Oklahoma State University and is an active member of the Therapeutic   Recreation Association of Oklahoma.

Karen Duarte, CTRS Karen is a certified Recreation Therapist who came to Parkside in November 2008 from Crittenton Children's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Recreation Therapy from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia Arkansas.