SAVE THE DATE for the next gathering:

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 (NOTE: This is a new date.)
4 – 7:30 pm
Sierra Health Foundation
1321 Garden Highway
Sacramento

This gathering will include youth participants from outdoor education programs and will focus on presentations and discussions around “Best Practices” for engaging all youth in high quality outdoor experiences.

You can register now at http://www.ydnetwork.org/Registration

NOMINATIONS FOR “BEST PRACTICES”
We are looking to invite 3-5 organizations that exemplify aspects of “Best Practices” to present their work at the February gathering.

In our meetings we have identified a number of challenges (cultural issues, transportation/access, safety/fear, lack of experience, funding) in connecting diverse youth to outdoor experiences. We’d like groups that have struggled with and successfully addressed some of those challenges to talk about their work. Ideally, the presentations would include both youth and adults. We would provide more guidance on the format for the presentations.

To suggest your organization or another organization to present, send an email to Deb Bruns, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Please provide contact information for the organization and a few sentences explaining why you are nominating them.

JOIN A WORK GROUP
Work groups will meet once or twice between meetings to continue working on suggested projects and actions and developing plans for future meetings. Please consider joining a work group:

Resource Mapping Workgroup
Contact Eva Butler, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 
Marketing & Outreach
Contact Emily Butler, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Best Practices
Contact Deb Bruns, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

NOTES FROM OCTOBER 20 MEETING
The notes, evaluations and participant list from the October 20 meeting are now posted on the http://www.creec.org/region3” target=“_blank”>YDN website