Partnering with BAWT

Partner with BAWT to take your team’s learning beyond the classroom. Our private programs give teachers and youth workers meaningful outdoor professional development, opportunities to build community, and long-term resources - including individual and organizational access to our Gear Library. Together, we’ll help your team feel confident and prepared to open the outdoors to youth.

Partnerships & Programs

Partnering With BAWT

Bring your educational team together with a private BAWT program. By partnering with BAWT, you provide your teachers and youth workers with meaningful outdoor professional development, opportunities for community building, and access to long-term educational resources - such as our Gear Library. 

Professional Development
BAWT’s core programs have provided meaningful training and resources to educators across the Bay Area for 25 years. While this training is impactful for individuals, group programs really allow your organization to set expectations around specific curriculum, processes, and risk management for your entire staff.

Organizational Culture & Values
Our partnership program helps you infuse your organizational values into training. Whether you have a cultural or religious focus or a specific pedagogical model, BAWT works with you to celebrate and integrate your unique qualities so your staff can lead outdoor experiences that are both meaningful and aligned with your organization.

Community Building
By providing a transformational experience for your staff and volunteers, you cultivate a sense of community enrichment that extends long past the training itself. Not only does this increase the likelihood of collaboration on field trips and trip planning - it also improves the overall social health of your organization.

Training with BAWT

Expert, Safe, and Inclusive Training
BAWT courses are hands-on training designed to help you, the known adult, lead your youth safely and confidently in outdoor settings. You will learn and practice key skills like planning and facilitating activities, managing group safety, integrating outdoor ethics, and building engaging, educational outdoor experiences. The course takes place in a local park or natural area, giving you the opportunity to learn-by-doing and develop practical skills that can be applied to a variety of outdoor programs.

Unlock Access to Outdoor Gear
Course graduates gain access to BAWT’s Gear Library, featuring a wide range of high-quality outdoor equipment. This resource equitably reduces financial barriers and ensures that all youth, regardless of background, have the right gear to participate in meaningful outdoor experiences safely.

Proven Impact and Support Network
With 25 years of experience, BAWT has empowered thousands of educators to lead meaningful trips that inspire and engage students. Organizations benefit from a strong network of like minded peers and ongoing support, building lasting capacity for outdoor learning.

HIKING Leadership Training (HLT)

Hiking Leadership Training (HLT) is a one day introductory hiking course that covers all the basic skills and resources which teachers and youth leaders need to take youth safely and successfully on day hiking trips - perfect for both beginners and experienced hikers.

Outdoor Classroom Management
Adults learn how to guide youth on day hikes without getting overwhelmed or losing their way on the trail. Our trainings combine day-hiking leadership with group management skills, giving leaders the confidence to keep trips safe, engaging, and on track from start to finish.

Practical Topics
The HLT will focus on hiking in a natural outdoor setting, such as a park with trails. Your course will take place at a park in the Bay Area, where you will learn-by-doing and practice the skills you need to walk and hike in natural settings and to plan and facilitate hikes for groups of youth.

Experiential Learning
On course, participants switch between taking the role of youth participant and adult leader. Instructors use experiential education, role modeling, and more to grow participants' technical skills as hikers and their facilitation skills as outdoor educators.

Course Pricing per Participant
Solidarity: $100
Subsidized: $315
Standard: $465
Supporter: $700

Course Pricing per Group  (20 participants)
Standard: $9,300
Supporter: $14,000

Frontcountry Leadership Training (FLT)

Frontcountry Leadership Training (FLT) is a 2-day entry-level “car camping” course that covers all the basic skills and resources which teachers and youth leaders need to take youth safely and successfully on overnight camping trips and hikes.

Outdoor Classroom Management
Adults learn how to guide youth outdoors without getting overwhelmed - or losing their way on the trail. Our trainings balance outdoor leadership with group management skills, giving leaders the confidence to keep trips safe, fun, and filled with s’mores for everyone.

Practical Topics
Tent set up, kitchen layout, risk management, hiking leadership & navigation, group dynamics and safety, cultural relevancy, nutrition, fun & games - the FLT covers all these cruical topics & more!

Experiential Learning
On course, participants switch between taking the role of youth participant and adult leader. This prepares them with experience as adult leader, and greater understanding of what youth might feel like on a camping trip.

Course Pricing per Participant
Solidarity: $250
Subsidized: $500
Standard: $750
Supporter: $1100

Course Pricing per Group (20 participants)
Standard: $15,000
Supporter: $22,000

Wilderness Leadership Training (WLT)

Wilderness Leadership Training (WLT) is a 5-day backpacking course that covers all the basic skills and resources which teachers and youth leaders need to take youth safely and successfully on overnight backpacking trips - perfect for both beginners and experienced backpackers.

Outdoor Classroom Management
Adults learn how to guide youth outdoors without getting overwhelmed - or losing their way on the trail. Our trainings blend backpacking leadership with group management skills, giving leaders the confidence to keep trips safe, engaging, and on course from trailhead to summit.

Practical Topics
You will learn how to pack and dress for backpacking, how to find and set up a backcountry campsite, how to cook with a minimal backcountry kitchen, outdoor ethics, risk management for the backcountry, route planning and navigation, and more.

Experiential Learning
On course, participants switch between taking the role of youth participant and adult leader. Instructors use experiential education, role modeling, and more to grow participants' technical skills as backpackers and their facilitation skills as outdoor educators.

Course Pricing per Participant
Solidarity: $700
Subsidized: $1,500
Standard: $2,200
Supporter: $3,200

Course Pricing per Group (12 participants)
Standard: $26,000
Supporter: $38,000

Equity-based Pricing Model

BAWT offers 4 pricing tiers to support outdoor access for all

Solidarity
For individuals or those coming from organizations with community roots and minimal resources. This rate lessens some financial barriers to participation. It’s designed for underfunded groups doing critical, equity-centered work so they can continue connecting youth to the outdoors.
Subsidized
For individuals or those coming from organizations with limited budgets and strong mission alignment. This rate supports those doing essential access work with some capacity to contribute. It helps reduce financial barriers while still supporting the sustainability of BAWT’s mission.
Standard
For individuals or those coming from organizations with moderate resources that can pay the true cost of gear or services but aren’t in a position to subsidize others. It reflects the actual expenses of delivering high-quality outdoor programs and helps BAWT break even.
Supporter
For individuals or those coming from organizations with the means to pay more and help sustain our shared mission of expanding access to the outdoors for everyone.

Professional Development

BAWT’s core programs have provided meaningful training and resources to educators across the Bay Area for 25 years. While this training is impactful for individual teachers, group programs really allow your organization to set expectations around curriculum, process, and risk management for your entire staff.

Organizational Culture
 & Values

Our partnership program helps you infuse your organizational values into training. Whether you have a cultural or religious focus or a specific pedagogical model, BAWT works with you to celebrate and integrate your unique qualities so your staff can lead outdoor experiences that are both meaningful and aligned with your organization.

Community Building

By providing a transformational experience for your staff and volunteers, you cultivate a sense of community enrichment that extends long past the training itself. Not only does this increase the likelihood of collaboration on field trips and trip planning - it also improves the overall social health of your organization.