Learning from Camp Mystic: Six Lessons for Outdoor Programs

Lessons from the official investigation and how programs should prepare differently in the 2020s.

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How Far Outdoor Program Risk Management Has Come, and Where It’s Headed

The state of risk management in outdoor programs in the 2020s, seen through five years of external reviews

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How to know when it's time to bring in an outside perspective

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How understanding “normal work” can reveal risks, improve systems, and make the safer way the easier way