$95,000 to support the continued expansion of the Outdoor Youth Connection, which addresses the need to connect youth with nature while making resources, access, and information attainable for California’s underserved youth while overcoming barriers of poverty, lack of transportation, and fear.

$125,000 towards the Outdoor Youth Connection (OYC), which trains local youth to be peer leaders on camping trips for their communities that are participating in the FamCAmp programs of CA State Parks.

$133,000 to expand its FamCamps and Youth Leadership Institutes into the communities of the East Bay and Stockton.

$90,000 towards partnering with local non-profits on a project called the “Outdoor Youth Connection (OYC). OYC will provide a foundation that will help make parks and open space more relevant to our state"s most disconnected populations by providing highly structured introductions to outdoor experiences for California"s most disadvantaged youth. The collaborations and experiences are designed to create a pipeline of trained youth that will help build a bridge between local communities, youth providers and a network of Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) to the outdoors. The program will present these experiences in a more relevant and engaging way that will encourage more non-traditional populations to explore their parks.