Friends of the Kinark Outdoor Centre

There are a few organizations that the Kinark Outdoor Centre work with to help achieve common goals and encourage mutual improvement in the field of outdoor education, therapeutic services and/or environmental learning. We thank them for their dedication!

Out To Learn is a division of Glenside Ecological Services Limited and endorsed by the Haliburton Highlands Stewardship Council, develops and delivers natural resource, ecological and environmental educational programs that are designed to provide participants with factual and theoretical information in an interesting and interactive manner. These programs are science and geography based with direct links to the Ontario curriculum. Drawing from our strong scientific backgrounds, programs are easily tailored to a wide variety of audiences, from Grade 5 to educators, professionals and citizens."
Out to Learn and the Kinark Outdoor Centre work together for the Naturally Kids Discovery Day Camp, the Climate Change Education Program and other public awareness days held at the KOC. Out to Learn also uses the Kinark Outdoor Centre as a site for school programming.

Speaking of kids mental health.ca is a forum for people to connect regarding kids mental health. As Ontario's largest accredited children's mental health agency, Kinark is proud to partner with the Child Welfare League of Canada and the Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in the launch of www.speakingofkidsmentalhealth.ca as a communication and resource tool for youth, parents, educators and mental health professionals. Click News and then Bloggers to see blogs form Kinark staff including a blog from Jim McHardy the Kinark Outdoor Centre Director.

The Haliburton-Muskoka Children's Water Festival (HMCWF) is an annual event that motivates students to become water stewards in their homes, classroom and community. By combining hands-on interactive activities with messages relevant to their daily lives, students 'soak up' knowledge on the properties, uses, connections and importance of water. With this knowledge, students become aware of the value of conserving and protecting water.

The HMCWF is held at the Kinark Outdoor Centre and uses the natural beauty of our site to enhance its message of water resource stewardship.

Water covers 75 per cent of the planet, and also makes up about 75 per cent of a person's body weight. Water is essential for all life on Earth. Without it, nothing lives and nothing grows.

Check out these organizations more by clicking the blue lettered hyperlinks. Thank you to these organizations who have supported the Kinark Outdoor Centre! Kudos!

Sincerely,

"Messy" Jesse the Intern