OUR
BACKGROUND
CanAdventure
Education's founders draw from decades of experience in
public education and extra-curricular environments to
bring together into one package the most effective tools
for producing meaningful, measurable results among troubled
teens in Canada: hands-on learning, physical
challenge, and working cooperatively with others. Our
focus on academic education, cultural awareness, skill
development, and personal growth is based on a holistic
approach that we believe lays the foundation for a balanced
and healthy lifestyle long after the last day of our program.
Our
experience creating the Outreach Adventure Society's Vancouver
Island Experiential Wilderness (VIEW) Program, a highly
successful public school program that provided an opportunity
for troubled teens to reconnect with the educational process
and with their community, puts CanAdventure Education
at the leading-edge of experiential education in Canada.
CanAdventure Education's Director of Programming, Corinna
Stevenson, was awarded the Prime Minister's Award for
Teaching Excellence for her work on the VIEW Program and
other alternate education initiatives in the public school
system. Our background also includes the development of
Global Perspectives, an alternate education program focusing
on global awareness and international development projects,
and the national Dynamic Opportunities for Youth rowing
program, now providing free participation in team sports
to over 600 troubled teens in Canada.
CanAdventure
Education was born out of a desire to increase access
to therapeutic wilderness programs for troubled teens
in Canada. Our camps are based on the most effective elements
of the our past program development experience, and we
are pleased to make them available to all troubled teens
in Canada and abroad.
