Research and Evaluation

End-users of YouthSafe Outdoors resources have very high confidence in the quality, accuracy and relevance of the material because it is strongly grounded in cross-referenced empirical evidence and co-creative consultation with the end-users themselves. The resources are developed based on research from hundreds of relevant sources including:

• Document analysis of relevant policies and procedural documents;
• Extensive primary, survey, interview and document analysis research of policies, procedures and practices in the jurisdiction and elsewhere;
• Analysis of the standard of care documents of similar educational and recreational organizations (provincial, national and international);
• Review of relevant statutes, case law, public inquiry learnings and incident reviews;
• National and provincial education and recreation incident analyses and injury databases;
• Risk management, law, social science, health science, education, recreation and wilderness literature; and
• Consultation, reviews, pilot and field tests involving each project’s Advisory Team, Study Group and other interested individuals and organizations in the jurisdiction.