Youth Training Ideas and Training Providers
Youth Training Ideas and Training Providers
DownloadHere are some trainings you could organize for your youth:
- Advanced snorkelling and harvesting / free diving (potential provider: Bottom Dwellers - Chris Adair)
- Smokehouse Building - carpentry instructors
- Naloxone training - (potential provider: BCCDC - Chee Mamuk)
- Possessions and Acquisition License (PAL) - guns - legally possess (holding) and acquire (buy) weapon
- Conservation and Outdoor Recreation Education (CORE) - hunting
- Powersaw Operator Course - Basic Chainsaw
- Basic Wilderness First Aid and Advanced Wilderness First Aid
- Driver Training
- 20 x 24 Cedar Sided Cabin Building
- Cedar weaving - http://www.authenticindigenous.com/artists/leonard-tiger-williams
- Longhouse Style Sheltered Firepit Building
- Log Cabin Building (potential provider: Buckshot - BC)
- Navigation - Orienteering
- Bear Aware (potential provider: Wildsafe BC)
- Trip Planning (potential provider: AdventureSmart BC)
- Search and Rescue
- Small Vessel Operator Proficiency (SVOP)
- Marine Emergency Duties A3 (teaches you what to do if your boat is sinking)
- Marine First Aid
- Swift Water Rescue
- Restricted Operator Course-Marine (radio operator) - there's also an aeronautical version for pilots
- Trail Building (potential provider: Patrick Lucas - Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Association - https://www.plucascatalyst.com/youth-program)
- Powerpoint and Microsoft Office
- Consent Conversations
- Gender Galaxy (potential provider: BCCDC)
- Working on fatherhood
- Tiny homes
- Snowshoe making
- Intro to canoe guiding (potential provider: Outward Bound)
- Canoe and kayak safety training and trips: Jackpine Paddle - NWT (https://jackpinepaddle.com/local-partnerships/)
- Archery (potential provider: Curt Smecher - BC Archery)
- Building successful youth programs for Indigenous youth workers (potential provider: 3-Fires - https://www.3-fires.com)
- Trapping (potential provider: Tim Killed from BC Trapping Association)
- Survival Camp (potential provider: Overhang out of Prince George)
- Archaeology (potential provider: Wolf and Crow - Aaron Blake Evans)
- Ethnobotany (potential providers: Fiona Chambers, Nancy Turner - Victoria BC)
- Interviews around traditional use of certain areas or resources (potential provider: Firelight Group)
- Photography - or droning and filming: (potential providers: smaller filming organizations or individuals: Moonlight, Moon and Fish Film Productions -based out of Vancouver BC)
- Videography (potential provider: Tofino Wedding Videos)
- Whale research / hydrophoning
- Environmental DNA
- Science and sailing (potential provider: Raincoast Conservation Society - science / education / research vessel called the Achiever)
- Food security - Eat West Coast; and Second Harvest (secondharvest.ca)
- Water First (https://waterfirst.ngo)
- ACTUA (STEM workshops in community) - https://actua.ca
- Strategic Planning - Alderhill (https://www.alderhill.ca)
Locations where you can host youth gatherings or get supplies
- Cedar Coast Field Station (BC)
- Coombs Rodeo Grounds and Fast Time Go-Carts (Vancouver Island, BC)
- Cabela's (sports store) - have Mora knives
- Lil'wat Outdoors School