Nature walks, swimming, surfing, art instruction, building awareness of parks, recreation benefits, water conservation and solutions to prevent pollution, climate change and potential solutions, outdoor safety, camping skills, cooking and learning sound nutrition habits and food storage safety, wilderness survival skills, teamwork and leadership building activities in nature, and therapeutic recreation in nature to heal from the effects of PTSD, trauma and other physical and emotional conditions.

Impact on Climate Change - workshops on how climate change is effecting our planet. Water & Earth Processes - Watershed activities Availability of Natural Resources - Nature Walks with educational components Modification's of Earth's systems by Human Activity - The importance of leave no trace and leaving a location better than how we found it Cycling of Water in Earth's systems - Watershed activities Pollution prevention - Teaching of using non chemical processes at our camp site that flushes water into the grounds Camping Skills - trip preparation Cooking & Learning sound nutrition habits & food storage - at retreat in the kitchen and with farm to table activities Teamwork & Leadership building activities in nature - during all nature trips Therapeutic recreation in Nature - during all nature trips

Point Reyes National Seashore Association and their Clem Miller Camp has been the greatest partnership for this award- being able to provide the youths we serve a location in nature that they are familiar with and look forward to coming back to especially when for a lot of them it is their first times leaving their communities and experiencing the state park and all the nature it has to offer. Here we are able to teach camping skills and build awareness of parks and recreation. Me Water has been a great partnership in surfing and allowing the youths to be comfortable in water - bringing the youths out to the California Oceans and teaching of the importance of water conservation and solutions to prevent pollution and climate change

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• Hands on experience and investigation
• Teaching in a fun and engaging way.
• Encouragement to explore, reflect and connect with nature.
• Having staff youths can identify with and feel safe.

Ensuring youths have fun, using simple and relatable examples, having energetic teachers and allowing youth to participate and jump into activities have all been successful methods for us. Unforeseen challenges this year was we had a very major transition in our organization causing us to have to delay some community days - we do have a plan in place to continue this on in the coming year and will reach out goal.