bay area wilderness training discovery session
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Bay Area Wilderness Training Discovery Session presentation – Helping YOU Get Youth Outdoors!TRANSCRIPT
BAY AREA WILDERNESS TRAININGDISCOVERY SESSION
Your best outdoor experience
Share your best memory/story of being out in the wild
Is it gazing at the stars in Yosemite?
Eating s’mores at a campfire on a beach?
Listening to the wind in the trees in Muir Woods?
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From here…
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To here!
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This term, coined by Richard Louv, describes the growing psychological, physical, and cognitive costs of alienation from nature.
There is increasing evidence that this trend is resulting in a wide range of behavioral problems ranging from childhood obesity to depression.
In a typical week, only 6% of children, ages 9 - 13, play outside on their own.
from The Children and Nature Network’s A REPORT ON THE MOVEMENT TO
RECONNECT CHILDREN TO THE NATURAL WORLD
The need
Nature-Deficit Disorder
“I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are.” - A fourth-grader in San Diego.
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We provide Bay Area youth agency and school staff with wilderness leadership training and comprehensive support so that they, along with the youth they serve, may explore the power and beauty of California's wilderness.
Our primary strategy:
We train the trainer
Training Leaders
Providing Support
Getting Youth
Outdoors
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Leaders trained, youth served1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
1726 49
5229
20 3645 124
89108
78
375
765
604
428
692 775 831
1377
1978
2500
Adults Trained Youth Served
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The Five Pillars of Support
TRAINING1
TRANSPORTATION3FUNDING4COMMUNITY5
GEAR2
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Leadership Training:Wilderness Leadership Training
Frontcountry Leadership Training
Teambuilding
Wilderness Medicine:Wilderness First Responder
Wilderness First Aid
Skillbuilder Workshops
Winter Courses:Snowshoeing Basics
Intro to Winter Sports
The Five Pillars of Support
Training
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A library of amazing outdoor clothing and equipment to be used by the BAWT trained leaders and their youth. Oakland main gear library, smaller ones in San Francisco and the South Bay.
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Three gear libraries
Gear!
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BAWT can also help with funding for trips, through the Richard Louv Minigrants program. There are also scholarships available for the trainings.
The Five Pillars of Support
Minigrants, Scholarships…
Funding
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BAWT has Sienna Minivans on offer at a discounted rate for groups in collaboration with City CarShare.
The Five Pillars of Support
BAWTMobiles with CityCarshare
Transport
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Listserve / Yahoo Group for peer supportBAWT StaffEventsVolunteers!
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The best support: the communityCommunity
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Get trained!
Volunteer: gear room, CAP, street team, or countless other ways
Climbing For Kids: A fundraiser for BAWT where you climb a mountain, and raise funds for BAWT!
Project OAK: like CFK, but you choose your own adventure!
3rd Wednesdays Volunteer Night
Join us on Facebook: Fanpage and Cause
Join a BAWT committee
Get Involved!Be a part of the BAWT community!
VOLUNTEER NIGHT
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HOW IT WORKS: Climb a peak, get $1,500 worth of free gear and raise funds to get at-risk youth outdoors!
THE PERKS:• Training hikes every other weekend• Fundraising coaching• Top professional guides
www.climbingforkids.org
Climbing for Kids
