Introduction to YouthSafe Outdoors

YouthSafe Outdoors is a comprehensive research and consensus-based risk management program for planning and leading off-site outings/activities including common field trips, outdoor pursuits/adventure travel, aquatics, and other travel excursions.

Vision of YouthSafe Outdoors

A Canada where citizens enjoy a high quality of life during and following their youth, including adoption of healthy, active outdoor lifestyles undertaken within an accepted culture of safety and security.

Mission of YouthSafe Outdoors

YouthSafe Outdoors provides world-class risk management and safety education resources and services to central and site-level decision makers, teachers/leaders and parents/guardians to help them provide and model safe off-site experiences for students.

Our Logo

The YouthSafe Outdoors logo symbolizes our mission. We see young people being active in nature (under the sun by a river), capturing the joy they experience being alive there. However, the river can also be viewed as an adult’s sheltering arm, demonstrating the need to protect youth from unwarranted risks when we take them off-site.