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.

• Re-imagined Risk Management Practices

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

   • Recommended Intake Form Questions

2. Kitchen kit evolution

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

4. 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

• January: Craig Flax: Youth Access to Nature & Transportation

• 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