Benefits of Being Licensed in the YouthSafe Outdoors Community Voluntary Resource

• YouthSafe Outdoors (YSO) is a comprehensive (policy to practice) risk management system for youth programs.
• Participating community-based not-for-profit organizations receive access to the YSO resources while building capacity of their systems and people.
• YSO is highly research-based and legally defensible.
• YSO identifies specific approaches for traveling safely with youth to, from, and during activity participation.
• YSO provides safe, reasonable, attainable, ethical, and sustainable guidelines for over 45 common youth activities, and growing.
• YSO guidelines are voluntarily adopted.
• YSO saves your organization time with its easy-to-use tools for all risk management and safety education components of youth programs.