Youth Training Ideas and Training Providers

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Youth Training Ideas and Training Providers

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Here 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