Civil rights guidelines
The Oregon State University (OSU) Extension Service Outdoor School program provides Oregon’s school districts with funding for outdoor school.
Our program was built on a foundation of equity, diversity, access, and inclusion, as can be seen in our mission, vision, and values. These values are essential to who we are and to what we do. And we show this in our work to help public schools and outdoor school providers make their outdoor school programming better for all students.
We work to improve outdoor school programming by:
- Helping schools and outdoor school providers include every student in outdoor school and helping them make outdoor school a positive, inclusive, and welcoming experience.
- Helping schools to make sure every student can take part.
- Providing training and support to create teaching materials that match our mission, vision, and values.
- Giving schools and outdoor school providers tools to assess and improve the fairness, inclusiveness, and accessibility of outdoor school in Oregon.
- Requiring, to receive funding, that schools and outdoor school providers follow the state and federal laws that don’t allow discrimination.