Program resources are continually evolving and we intend to share resources that may be helpful for your programming. Please reach out to Seraph at anytime if you are looking for something that isn’t shared below or have any questions. Just because it isn’t listed below doesn’t mean that something similar to what you need does not exist within one of our member organizations!
Programs are paused until later in the fall while we begin building asynchronous training modules. In the meantime, if you would like to request and OEN stie visit or if you would like to visit another OEN member, please reach out to Seraph at seraph@outdoorsempowered.org.
The purpose of this working group is to discuss, address, and workshop the following issues: What are all the layers of safety? Physical, racial, gender, gender identity, religious, spiritual, traditional, ethical, cultural, ability, etc.
This working group set out to discuss, address, and workshop the following issues: protocols for holidays (especially those with food restrictions), everyday food restrictions based on cultural or religious needs, and gear needed to support these needs.
Please utilize the resources below:
Holiday/Cultural Recommendations
Why it matters
Religious/Cultural Food Recommendations
This working group set out to discuss and address the following issues: queer affirming gear, queer inclusion in outdoor spaces, safety, and gender vs. sexuality. We met every other week, and workshopped documents surrounding tenting policies, queer inclusive language, and queer affirming gear beyond the gender binary. Thank you to Kindling Collective, Ryan McMorrow, The Mountaineers, and everyone else who showed up for these conversations, and helped draft the working best practice documents below:
Additional Meeting Notes includes:
bleeding bodies
mental health safety & support
affirming gear needs
This working group set out to discuss and address the following issues: Human-Related Hazards, Medical Concerns, Plant & Animal Hazards, and Trauma-Informed Approaches. We met every other week, and workshopped documents surrounding human dangers in outdoor spaces, bodily ability, generational trauma in landscapes, internalized racism when leading, and solo outings. Thank you to AMC’s Educators Outdoors, BAWT, and all those who sowed up for these conversations and helped draft the working best practices documents below:
During this working group we began an assessment of the current trainings available across the network.
Training guide resource folder
Includes notes
Includes member training guides
Monthly Gatherings are held with guest speakers on the last Tuesday of the month. OEN records and shares these sessions with our members when appropriate. Programs are paused until later in the fall.
January, Craig Flax: Youth Access to Nature & Transportation
February, Marshall White: Grief and Outdoor Programming
March, Seraph White: A Framework for Expanding Access
May, Outdoor Outreach: Immigration Resources (no recording)
May, Andrea Kurth: Workplace Advocacy
June, Parker McMullen Bushman: Ecoinclusive Strategies
January, Louise Benally: Storytelling & Indigenous Justice
February, Franklin Cruz: Intersectional Identities & Affirming Spaces
April, Maeve Fields: Liability & the Nuances
May, Jose Gonzalez: Community Organizing
June, Mara Martinez-Hewitt: Resting & Healing in Relationship w/ the Land
August, Kay Sadowitz: Gear Maintenance & Repair
October, Luisa Porras: Language Justice: Embarazada is not Embarrassed
March, Michelle Danae: Removing Supremacy from Organizational Structures
May, Moleek Busby: Incident Reporting & DEIJ in the Outdoors
June, Corinne Handelman: Corporate Partnerships & Fundraising
July, Raquel Sapp: The Human Approach to Rescue
August, Seraph White: Christo Normativity in Outdoor Recreation Values
September, Seraph White: Let’s Talk About Land Acknowledgements
October, Jackie Radilla: Language Justice & Translation Tips
In 2020, OEN began offering a gear library management system, called MyTurn, for members as an optional add-on to their annual membership fee. Managing gear library inventory and reservations has been a long-standing challenge for many OEN members and so far those who have implemented the software are having a positive experience with it. OEN members get a non-profit pricing discount which depends on the number of items you’d like to list. . Please contact Seraph if you’d like to see how the system works or if you want to chat with a member who is currently using the system.
http://myturn.com/s/oensetup - click on free trial
The list is here. For example categories I recommend looking at getoutdoorsleadville.myturn.com or bawt.myturn.com. We will spend the first meeting going through each of these, but like I said please explore.
1) Set all the system wide parameters-
Set up categories - 20-25
Set up sub-locations for item restrictions based on membership.
Set up member types - both for payment levels and restrictions - eg an individual member with access to backpacking gear vs and supporting member with access to only warm clothing.
Concurrent with item set-up, finetune pricing structures for membership levels
Decide whether you will track each item individually or if identical items are interchangeable.
Add waivers to system
Determine your item numbering system if you want item numbers to be a certain way. Default is each new item get the next available number.
2) Create one copy of each item. This allows you to make sure it has all the right restrictions, data, etc.
3) Mass duplicate items using the import/export system
4) Concurrent with items, go through email templates, spanish translation phrases, home page
5) User testing
6) Deploy
