北陸地方における福祉サービスの場としての都市公園に対する社会福祉法人の意向

The purpose of this study is to clarify the intention of social welfare corporations to utilize urban parks as places to provide social welfare services, and to clarify the specifics of this intention. The questionnaire survey was conducted on all social welfare corporations in Toyama, Ishikawa, and Fukui prefectures. Questionnaires were distributed to 738 organizations, and valid responses were received from 89 organizations, for a valid response rate of 12.1%. The analysis methods were simple tabulation of each question and correlation analysis among the questions. Text data were also organized. The results of the study revealed that there are a certain number of social welfare corporations that are willing to utilize urban parks as places to provide welfare services. Next, the all of social welfare corporations were divided into four groups based on the magnitude of their intention to utilize urban parks. Finally, two specific directions of utilization were identified: one is to utilize urban parks as places for disabled people to work, and the other is to utilize urban parks as places where various generations can interact with each other.