Bay Area Wilderness Training supports teachers and youth workers with training, gear, funding, and community – helping you get youth outdoors!
These are the support services BAWT has worked to build since 1999. It’s about breaking down barriers for young people to access to the outdoors – and fight against a growing, disturbing disconnect now becoming known as “Nature-Deficit Disorder”. This term, coined by Richard Louv, describes the growing psychological, physical, and cognitive costs of alienation from nature. BAWT is addressing this concern by getting well over 2,500 youth outdoors every year.
What you can do to help:
Whether you’re someone looking to get trained to take kids outside or a person looking to make a difference in your community by making a contribution of time or money, BAWT provides a way for you to help connect kids to the bigger picture of a living planet that we all share.
