2024 Wilderness Risk Management Conference

Sometimes the best outcome is for a participant to go home before the program is over. Setting your program and its participants up for success means preparing to support both attendance and early departure. This presentation will look at strategies and tools to reduce unnecessary departures as well as identify and ease necessary departures. This will include creating clear and consistent program definitions, defining the boundaries of the program and staff skill-set, supportive and inclusive program design, and defining the pathways that lead to a participant staying or going home. We will share experiences, look at example tools and templates, and review case studies for a variety of situations and participant types. [Updated and revised version of presentation given in 2022]