Events

CCCN Fall Learning Series: Applying Systems Change for Children’s Equitable Access to Nature in Your City

Online Workshop

Join us for this hands-on workshop to identify unique systems levers for cities to advance equitable access to nature for children. This second session of a three-part series engages participants in applying a system change framework to their city or program. The session offers an opportunity to deepen understanding of the underlying conditions that often […]

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Evaluating Nature-Based Youth Development Programs with Hello Insight

In this interactive webinar, Cynthia Weaver, Senior Associate with The Annie E. Casey Foundation, will share the importance of evaluation as a tool to improve outcomes and communicate impact as a program and a sector. Hello Insight co-founder and COO Sally Munemitsu will preview exciting new data showing how nature positively enhances youth development outcomes. […]

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CCCN Fall Learning Series: Measuring Systems Change for Children’s Equitable Access to Nature [RESCHEDULED]

Online Workshop

If you registered for the original webinar on Nov. 3, you do not need to register again. Please check your email as we sent out an email with the login link and information. Email info@childrenandnature.org for any questions. Join us to learn how to measure progress in changing the conditions that keep cities from providing […]

Free

Inside-Out Networking Mixer

Online Networking

Join The Children & Nature Network online for our next quarterly networking mixer. Featuring best-selling author and Children & Nature Network co-founder, Richard Louv, this informal virtual event offers some time to connect with other folks in the children and nature movement. Staff from the Children & Nature Network will offer a brief welcome, and […]

Free

Youth Leadership Development Networking Events

Online Event

Calling young leaders, ages 18-28! Join peers for a series of networking sessions, starting June 29 and hosted every other month by the Children & Nature Network through the end of the year. These sessions will be an opportunity for you to network and connect with your peers, discuss service and community building, and learn […]

Free

Vitamin N – A Conversation With Richard Louv

Online Networking

Join us July 19 at 1 pm CST for a conversation with author and Children & Nature Network co-founder, Richard Louv. About this event Richard will share what he learned about creating a nature-filled life while writing his book, "Vitamin N", and share some tips for completing the #VitaminN2022 Challenge! Learn more about the challenge […]

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Global Lessons on Greening School Grounds & Outdoor Learning: Peru (Recording)

Online Event

Learn about the global movement for greening school grounds and hear best practices from our Peru case study! About this event There is growing momentum worldwide to make school grounds greener as a sensible and thoughtful approach to increase climate resilience and improve health and education outcomes, especially for those most impacted by systems of […]

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Global Lessons on Greening School Grounds & Outdoor Learning 24-Hour Livestream Event

Online Event

Join us as we celebrate the launch of The Salzburg Statement for Greening School Grounds & Outdoor Learning with 24 livestream events hosted by colleagues from around the world. The Salzburg Statement– drafted by Global Fellows to influence thinking, policy, and approaches –will support a global action agenda to ensure that all children and communities have […]

Nature’s Power in Healing Trauma (Recording)

Online Event

How can nature and outdoor access support healing? With today's youth facing a growing mental health crisis, this conversation will focus on how nature-based activities and therapies can support children and young people's well-being and help them recover from trauma. We will hear from Dr. Hanaa Hamdi and Kimiko Russell-Halterman who are both working in […]

Free

Building – and Rebuilding – a Movement (Recording)

Online Event

What does building a movement mean and, once the momentum is there, how do we evolve and respond to meet changing needs? This conversation brings together Marlow Baines, Youth Director for Earth Guardians, and Richard Carlbom, co-founder and partner of United Strategies, to share their successes and challenges, and discuss what it takes to sustain […]

Free

“Wood Hood” Screening and Conversation (Recording)

Online Screening

"Wood Hood," Best Short Film winner at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, is a coming-of-age documentary that follows inner-city youth on their path to discovering themselves and the great outdoors. The documentary film follows DeVaughn, a 15-year-old from New York City who loves skateboarding and craves a "quiet place;" on a weekend-long group camping trip […]

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Self-Care in Nature (Recording)

Online Event

Self-Care in Nature  Practicing self-care in nature is an extra boost for your health. It’s easy and anyone can do it, including children. In this workshop, caregivers, parents and practitioners will learn how to, where to and why they should be practicing self-care in nature and teaching it to the children in their lives to […]

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