What Educators Say
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Parents will definitely see a difference. Information is going to be a little more detailed than it has been in the past. |
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Excellent reference material - worthy of a divisional workshop to overhaul existing policies/information. |
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Our organization is mandated to develop a risk management package for all our services. This program will provide the information required for school-aged and youth services. This program exceeds the information our organization would have put together. I feel it will help us offer services that have been shelved because of the risk factor. |
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We’re saved. We don’t have to re-invent the wheel. YSO has everything we need to support our programs and staff re: field trips. It’s a sure winner. Please thank the Ministry and MAST for us; they’ve given Manitoba schools a great gift in this program. |
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It will allow school administration to feel more secure in the knowledge that safety issues have been addressed, and will help me to promote programming and good instruction by reducing fear and resistance to outdoor education and field trips. |
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This is an outstanding resource. Everything is clear, easy to use and written at just the right level. |
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The YSO document not only provides research-based guidelines, but also provides the flexibility to make appropriate modifications for field trips which may fall outside the norm. It will also answer many of the ‘legal liability’ questions I am asked. |
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Please put YouthSafe Outdoors in our division policy and have all staff trained. Everyone would benefit from this workshop. Glenda is an outstanding trainer—she knows her stuff through and through; she walks the talk; she makes excellent use of humour and real case examples to bring it all alive. She is very respectful of her audience and their experience. |
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YouthSafe Outdoors presents teachers with tools instead of obstacles. It assists them with planning tools, checklists, etc., reducing work and diminishing risk. |
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This one-stop approach is outstanding! The guidelines are excellent and the support information and tools will be much appreciated by all. |
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… We can’t afford to NOT listen or pay attention to this document. |
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YouthSafe Outdoors is extremely good and we need to use this resource in our school division. |
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The quality, the comprehensiveness, the ease of use and especially the reasonableness of it all floored me. It gives me, an old dog, a new sense of purpose and joy in my work… |
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YouthSafe Outdoors provides a very valuable set of documents which will help us go short on policy and long on guidelines in order to provide legal protection for us, but more importantly, to improve the quality and quantity of outdoor experiences for our children. |
