YouthSafe Manitoba Coalition: Schools Advisory Team
The YouthSafe Manitoba Coalition – Schools Advisory Team is a diverse group of people with a passion for helping Manitoba youth learn to be safe, active, lifelong learners. The Advisory Team reflects the perspective of the many individuals and organizations needed to enhance field trip safety in Manitoba schools. As a group, they seek to combat fear with facts and to help lower the barriers, real and perceived, to schools taking students off-site. The team includes experts with backgrounds in a variety of disciplines, including classroom and field instruction, school administration, school division/district administration, policy development and governance, physical education, outdoor education, risk management, legal liability, search and rescue prevention, recreation, and leadership development.
The Coalition provided the formal mechanism for provincial education related organizations to participate in the development and review of the YouthSafe Manitoba resources. The Manitoba Association of School Trustees (MAST) invited and coordinated the participation of representatives from organizations involved. Over the course of the project, the following individuals participated in the Schools Advisory Team:
| Jacques Dorge | Bureau de l'éducation française, Government of Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth |
| Heather Willoughby | Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth |
| Keith Thomas (co-chair) |
Manitoba Association of School Trustees (MAST) |
| Tony Antonio | MAST |
| Jim Hardy | Manitoba Association of School Superintendents (MASS) |
| Bill Morgan | Principal, Whitemouth School |
| Tony Rodrigues | Principal, Dawson Trail School |
| Laurel Hanna (co-chair) |
Manitoba Physical Education Teachers Association (MPETA) |
| Grant McManes | MEPTA |
| Guy McKim | MPETA |
| Robert Stanners | MEPTA |
| Nick Dyck | Manitoba Physical Education Supervisors Association (MPESA) |
| Janet Chabota | Manitoba Association of Parent Councils (MAPC) |
| Jacqui Quennelle | Manitoba Camping Association |
| Shawn Feely | IMPACT Injury Prevention Centre Children's Hospital |
| Ken Fingler | HED Insurance Brokers Inc. |
Several other organizations and individuals attended one or more Coalition meetings, including Sport Manitoba, Recreation Connections, Manitoba High School Athletic Association, the City of Winnipeg - Community Services, camps, etc.
