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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!

Working Group Resources Skill Share Recordings MyTurn Google Drive

Working Group Resources

  • 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:

    1. Holiday/Cultural Recommendations

      • Why it matters

      • Religious/Cultural Food Recommendations

    2. Intake Form Recommendations

    3. Kitchen kit evolution

    4. Community email ahead of major holiday (Ramadan example)

    5. Meeting Notes

  • 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:

    1. Queer Inclusive Tent Policies

    2. Additional Meeting Notes includes:

      1. bleeding bodies

      2. mental health safety & support

      3. 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:

    1. Human Dangers in Outdoor Leadership

    2. Hunting Area Risk Management

    3. Solo Outings/Female Leader

    4. Risk Management comments

    You can reference additional meeting notes here.

  • During this working group we began an assessment of the current trainings available across the network.

    1. Training guide resource folder

      • Includes notes

      • Includes member training guides

Monthly Gatherings & Skills Sharing Recordings

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. Stay tuned for new recordings and pay attention to our speaker series on our upcoming programming page.

MyTurn Inventory System

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-

    1. Set up categories - 20-25

    2. Set up sub-locations for item restrictions based on membership.

    3. 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.

    4. Concurrent with item set-up, finetune pricing structures for membership levels

    5. Decide whether you will track each item individually or if identical items are interchangeable.

    6. Add waivers to system

    7. 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

    • Bay Area Wilderness Training Visit

    • Get Outdoors Leadville! Visit

    • GR Thrive Outside Gear Library Visit

    • Philadelphia Gear Library LLC Visit

Google Drive: Program Resources