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Goal V: Diversity

by kwadmin last modified 04-30-2007 15:39
Environmental Education Master Plan Goal 5: Diversity

Increase and broaden the diversity of EE audiences, providers, and programs.

  1. Reach, connect with, and attain a greater diversity of learners.
    1. Establish baseline demographics of learners reached by EE and determine priority-underserved audiences (e.g., demographics may include age, income, race, socio-economic, gender, geography, etc.).
    2. Conduct needs assessment with underserved communities (e.g., collaborate with local environmental justice or culturally-focused groups).
    3. Provide training opportunities to address different needs of targeted audiences.
  2. Increase provider diversity to better represent Colorado demographics.
    1. Establish baseline demographics of EE providers (e.g., demographics may include age, income, race, socio-economic, gender, geography, languages spoken, etc.).
    2. Design and support more programs to recruit diverse audiences to EE career options (e.g., Colorado Youth Naturally, career fairs, recruiting bi-lingual EE trainers, etc.).
    3. Develop partnerships with existing community-building organizations to introduce EE into their current programming.
    4. Develop a new partnership.
  3. Increase the diversity of EE learning experiences by exploring new venues and delivery opportunities.
    1. Provide training in interdisciplinary approaches to EE.
    2. Identify opportunities and engage in partnerships to infuse EE into other public programming (e.g., creative arts, health, recreation, cultural/heritage, etc.).
    3. Chronicle and highlight effective use of "nature play" in EE programming.
  4. Help close the information gap and access to programs between providers and users.
    1. Market EE Database/Directory to users.
    2. Add program and organization entries, that include a focus on diversity, to the online EE Database/Directory.

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