Adventure is exciting to children and meets important development needs, but facilitating risk-taking, thrill-filled experiences can be a challenge to the staff of regulated OST and youth development programs. Learn the research behind, and strategies for facilitating highly physical, sensory-rich, culturally appropriate learning experiences. This module presents examples of staff incorporating adventure elements into everyday program experiences in a variety of OST settings. (3 hours)
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Objectives
- Summarize current attitudes toward adventure and risk.
- Outline benefits of and barriers to adventure experiences in your current programming.
- Examine ways to optimize those benefits while minimizing safety risks.
- Identify specific ways to add elements of adventure to your indoor and outdoor schedule to support youth development of life skills and sensory awareness to be resilient, able-bodied adults.
- Critique current planning and facilitation strategies, identifying at least one programming modification that would welcome and support more adventure elements.
