Community End-Users
Desired outcome of involvement in the YouthSafe Outdoors initiative for each target audience
Municipal Government
- Municipal Councils
- Authorize use of resources developed by the municipal staff they employ
- Corporate Risk Managers
- Use guidelines for basis of guiding and assessing overall corporate risk management policy, procedures and practice by service delivery departments of municipality - recreation, sports, parks, and social service functions
- Community Services Managers
- Apply guidelines to direct staff and recommend to community organizations as the basis for their youth programs and services.
Park and Facilities Managers
- Use guidelines as a basis for setting shared expectations between themselves and community youth groups regarding roles, responsibilities and standards of care.
Direct Program/Service Delivery Managers
- Day Camps, playgrounds, youth special events
- Aquatic-based programs
- Social Service programs for persons with special needs
- Consultative services to community organizations
- Use guidelines as basis for youth program risk management considerations and resource for staff training and program planning.
- Use resource materials as basis for informing and gaining informed consent of parents/guardians of youth participants
Emergency Response Providers
- Use resources when asked to advise groups on aspects related to safety and risk management for their programs or organizations.
Police Services
- Prevention of intentional harm to youth participants: volunteer security checks, missing children, lost children
Fire, Emergency Medical Response, Search and Rescue
- Use resources when asked to advise groups on aspects related to safety and risk management for their programs or organizations.
Community Organizations
- Community Sport and Recreation Organizations
- Use material to support policies and procedures or their activity-related provincial and/or national organizations.
- Use material to support training of leaders and organizers at regional and local levels.
- Community Service Clubs and Organizations (Lions, Kinsmen, Rotary, etc.)
- Sponsors and organizers of youth-related programs, events, exchanges, and conferences use materials to support organization’s policies and procedures.
- Cultural or Religious Affiliated Youth Groups
- Sponsors and organizers of youth-related programs, events, exchanges, and conferences use materials to support organization's policies and procedures, program planning and leadership development.
- Service delivery to Special Populations Youth
- Use materials to support policies and procedures and training of volunteers.
Regional Health Authorities
- Injury Prevention
- Youth in Care
- Health Promotion
- Use resources when asked to advise groups on aspects related to safety and risk management for their programs or organizations.
- Promote activity and program safety for children and parents.
Insurers and Underwriters of Municipal and Community Programs
- Use resources to guide and recognize the appropriateness of their insured’s risk management programs.
- Use the resources as a standard of care reference with which to guide their defense of insureds should claims of liability be made.
Provincial Government Departments and Relevant Mandates
- Alberta Municipal Affairs
- (Emergency Management Alberta – provincial sponsor)
- Alberta Community Development
- Parks and Protected Areas – destination providers
- Cultural and Heritage Organization Support
- Sport and Recreation Organization Support
- Alberta Health and Wellness
- Health Promotion
- Injury Prevention
- Alberta Children’s Services
- Health Promotion of Children in Care
- Injury Prevention of Children in Care
- Alberta Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
- Health Promotion of Children
- Injury Prevention of Children
- Alberta Agriculture Food and Rural Development
- 4-H Program
- Rural Injury Prevention
- Rural Health Promotion
- Alberta Sustainable Resource Development
- Junior Forest Wardens Program
- Injury Prevention
- Health Promotion
- Alberta Justice and Attorney General
- Medical Examiners Office – Fatality Inquiries
- Health Promotion of Youth in Care
- Injury Prevention of Youth in Care
- Alberta Environment
- Injury Prevention of Youth in Environmental Education Programs
- Alberta Treasury
- Risk Management Service
- Alberta Insurance Council
Suggestions for Implementing YSO
Establish four points of contact for communication, participation and continuity of organization partnership.
- Board Liaison Director - organization's representative on policy, agreements and program development.
- Staff Liaison - information and logistics, expertise, process continuity
- Program Area Lead Contact - co-ordinates implementation across key elements of organization such as regional, urban/rural, large/small group, beginner/advanced, age groups, roles (e.g., Board, managers, leaders, parents).
Key functions
- Assist in increasing awareness of applied risk management system and role of YouthSafe Outdoors resource using existing communication channels.
- Advise the Board of Directors regarding the suitability of YSO resources, recommendations for the organization's applied risk management systems and on-going use of YouthSafe Outdoors and/or other risk management resources.
- Advise YouthSafe Outdoors on future product development, distribution and delivery methods to serve the needs of end-users within the organization.
- Advise organization pertaining to involvement and use of in-servicing and Train-the-Trainer opportunities.
Resources to Help Organizations Learn About and Use YouthSafe Outdoors Resources
- Articles about YouthSafe Outdoors and applied risk management in existing newsletters
- Presentations and training at leadership development or association Annual General Meetings, Conferences
- Exhibitors Booth at Conferences
- Email updates to designated contacts.
- Joint funding requests for help to develop, customize, or assist with implementation of applied risk management resources for organization specific implementation of YouthSafe Outdoors based systems.
