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Positive Energy Outdoors encourages people and animal powered exploration of the outdoors. Our programs emphasize teamwork, healthy risk taking, and positive communication, creating learning opportunities that can lead to a lifetime of active adventures.
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- 1. Positive Energy Outdoors Duluth’s Outdoor Education Center www.outdooredventures.org Stephanie Love, M.S. Experiential Education Blake Cazier, B.A.S. Teaching Earth Science
- 2. Positive Energy Outdoors provides outdoor education programs that blend physical skill building and positive social interactions with experiences in nature.
- 3. David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality · PQA BASICSDavid P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality · PQA BASICS Researchers Agree on What It Takes to Support Development The National Research Council & Institute for Medicine list the following key features of positive youth development settings: Physical and psychological safety Appropriate structure Supportive relationships Opportunities to belong Positive social norms Support for efficacy and mattering Opportunities for skill-building Integration of family, school and community efforts - Community Programs to Promote Youth Development, 2002
- 4. David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality · PQA BASICSDavid P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality · PQA BASICS Efficacy Communication Empathy Problem Solving High quality instruction provides youth with opportunities to practice emerging social and emotional skills… …that supports success in adolescence and early adulthood
- 5. David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality · PQA BASICS Out-of-School Time Clubs/Activities Day Camps Adventure/Leadership Programs for Teens Field Trips School Visits/Assemblies Tours and Instruction
- 6. David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality · PQA BASICS Key Program Outcomes ✦ Youth show a positive attitude towards learning. ✦ Youth learn to set goals and work towards them. ✦ Youth develop positive social skills.
- 7. David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality · PQA BASICS Highlights ✦ Over 3,000 total youth and adults served in all programs in 2014 ✦ Over 1,000 winter program participants used adjacent public land
- 9. Sled Dogs
- 11. On our new bog trail...
- 12. Skijoring
- 13. Ice Climbing
- 14. Kayaking
- 15. SUP
- 16. Lake Superior Kayak Tours
- 17. Two Harbors Kayak Festival
- 18. Agate Bay
- 19. Climbing Wall
- 20. Whoopie Wall
- 21. Ely’s Peak
- 22. Our Legacy: Serving the Community and RegionDuluth YWCA Girl Power Fond du Lac Ojibwe School Copeland/Valley Youth Center Duluth YMCA Boys and Girls Clubs of the Northland Damiano Center Kids Cafe Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts Esko, Cloquet, Duluth, Hermantown, Carlton Community Education Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute - Northland UMD Continuing Education East Hillside Patch Mind2Mind Neighborhood Youth Services Lutheran Social Services Hermantown Elementary and Middle Schools St. Anthony Middle School Colegeio Ypsilanti, Puebla, Mexico UWS GEARS Program Spirit of the Lake Community School Hillfest, Hermantown Summerfest, Bridgefest Two Harbors Kayak Festival Volunteer Attorney Program (Kids First)
- 23. Current Funding ✦ Public Program Revenue ✦ maurices ✦ Young Athletes Foundation ✦ United Way of Greater Duluth ✦ Port of Duluth Kiwanis Club ✦ Kiwanis Club of Friendly Duluth
- 24. Corporate GroupsCirrus Enbridge GE LP Wood Punch Pizza Get Knit Events Komet of America Northstar Capital Mesabi Nugget Grand Casino Mille Lacs and Hinckley Famous Daves Mayo Clinic
- 25. Sponsorship, grants and participation in public programming allows Positive Energy Outdoors to continue to help low- moderate income children and youth in our community explore the outdoors!
Editor's Notes
- This is how we define outdoor education. That social and emotional piece is what really sets us apart from other organizations. Our programs also fill an important opportunity gap. Duluth has been recognized as America’s Outdoor City, and yet many youth do not have access to the outdoor in their neighborhoods and community. Some have never been to Lake Superior even though they see it daily.
- This is part of the work I do as a consultant, and I like to include these slides because it’s important for people to know that when the best organizations work with young people, they do so in a way that is designed to meet their developmental needs. This slide talks about the developmental needs of all young people.
- High quality programs also provide support for social and emotional skills, the “soft skills” that often are overlooked in the classroom. They include: a sense of efficacy – the capacity to produce an effect, youth feeling, “What I do matters.” Communication skills through working side by side with adults Empathy through working cooperatively in small groups And Problem Solving through challenging activities. All of these skills support success in early adulthood. PEO helps youth practice these skills using the outdoors as a classroom.
- Our program areas! Tours and instruction for the general public as well as corporate group programming is our main source of program revenue.
- This is what happens when youth participate in our programming!
- Here are how many people come to our programs. This photo is of girls from the YWCA Girl Power program.
- And of course, our programs are FUN!
- A little about sled dogs—we just started our fall ATV training on Friday. Did you know the dogs will run 600-1,000 miles pulling this ATV before the snow comes? There are 55 dogs in our kennel, and they are all Alaskan huskies (fancy name for a mixed breed) that have been adopted from racing kennels where the musher has retired, downsized or the dog was cut from a team. Once at PEO’s kennel, these animals have a home for life.
- This is the 2015 John Beargrease Cub Run at Black Bear Casino, a 2 dog, 2 mile race for youth ages 12 and under. Thanks to funding from The North Face Explore Fund, we helped YWCA Girl Power program participants from Lincoln Park Middle School train two teams of dogs to run the race. These are the girls racing. Elianna won the race—you can see how proud she is of her accomplishment in this picture. The girls who did not race took on the role of handler, just like in a real race. All of the girls learned to dog sled. We are looking for a 2016 race sponsor ($1,500) to support the girls again this year. Many of them didn’t have the appropriate winter clothing and borrowed PEO’s. This experience helped the YWCA better understand the needs of the girls and they did an internal clothing drive to make sure the girls had what they needed to be outside in winter.
- We created new trails on our 35 acre property in 2015—they are amazingly beautiful.
- This is skijoring—cross country skiing with a dog pulling. Boo Joe in the photo is a German Shorthair Pointer Husky Cross who came from a sled dog kennel in Iowa as puppy when his owner retired from racing.
- We take many groups ice climbing each winter. This is at Gooseberry Falls State Park. It’s an amazing corporate adventure.
- PEO has waterfront on Fredenberg Lake, where we teach inland lake kayak skills for families, groups and our campers. We are excited to offer a new program starting in 2016 using a 10 passenger 25 foot Voyaguer Canoe.
- We also have stand up paddleboards—kids love them!
- If you haven’t been on Lake Superior in a stable tandem kayak, we’d love to take you on a tour. We can take up to 14 people at a time on Lake Superior or our inland lake, and larger groups can participate in multi-element programming, such as a naturalist hike, rock climbing or team building activities.
- We provide youth and family programming at the Two Harbors Kayak Festival and area always looking for volunteers to help!
- Paddling next to a 1,000 foot ship in Agate Bay in Two Harbors!
- PEO’s climbing wall is generously sponsored by maurices! Other programs areas, such as dog sledding, kayaking or Voyageur canoeing, are available for business sponsorship.
- We climb in West Duluth at the Whoopie Wall—it’s a great place for first time climbers!
- Ely’s Peak near Spirit Mountain is another popular climbing spot! We also climb with groups and individuals on the North Shore at Shovel Point and Carlton Peak.
- A few of the organizations we serve…
- Thank you to the foundations and organizations that support PEO. Learn how you can help!
- Corporate group programs help support PEO’s ability to close the outdoor opportunity gap for youth!