BRTW considers your child’s safety to be our primary concern.

Therefore all staff members participate in a minimum of 80 hours of initial staff training until the Executive and Field Directors believe they are proficient in the following skills:
  • Instruction in safety procedures and proper equipment usage (fuel, fire, life protection)
  • Instruction in emergency procedures like medical, evacuation, weather, or fire
  • Basic first-aid
  • Navigation skills (map and compass use for navigation)
  • Local environmental precautions (terrain, weather, insects, poisonous plants)
  • Planned response to adverse situations or emergency evacuations
  • Counseling, teaching, supervisory skills, leadership, leadership, communication, relational skills, and wilderness hard skills
  • Managing, preparing, and conserving water, food, and shelter
  • Low impact wilderness expedition and environmental conservation skills
  • Group management (containment, control, safety, conflict resolution, and behavior management)
  • Sanitation procedures; water, waste, food, etc.
  • Report writing, including development and maintenance of logs and journals
  • Federal, state, and local regulations

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