Holt Library: Outdoor Leadership: Finding Articles

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Keywords to Try	Keywords Specific to DEI
Outdoor Leadership, Led Outdoor Activity	Access, Barriers, Equitable Access
Outdoors, Outdoor Recreation	Diversity
Experiential Education, Outdoor Education	Inclusion
Adventure Therapy, Adventure-based Counseling	Inequality
Wilderness Therapy	Minority Groups, Minority Youth, LGBTQ+, Non-Binary Gender, Sexuality, Transgender Persons
Nature-Based	Ethnic Groups, Indigenous Peoples, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans
Nature-Based Therapy, Nature Therapy, Outdoor Therapy	Racial Justice, Social Justice
Nature-Based Intervention	Racism or Race, Racialized Spaces, Prejudice, Redlining
Recreational Therapy	Demographics
Forest Therapy	Low-Income
Wilderness Areas	Sexism, Gender Inequality
Greenspaces	Disability, Visual Impairment, Accessibility, Ableism
National Parks	Autism, ADHD, Neurodiversity
Parks and Recreation Areas	Mental Disorders, Anxiety, Depression

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Outdoor DEI sites of interest

Anti-racism in the Outdoors
Resources related to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion of Black, Indigenous and People of Color in parks and greenspaces
Association for Experiential Education
Members of AEE represent a broad spectrum of professional fields that utilize experiential education methodologies and practices: outdoor, classroom, human service, organizational training, therapeutic and adventure settings. The AEE Community Resource Library was created as a place for resource sharing among the community.
Disabled Hikers
A leading advocate for inclusion and accessibility in the outdoors, guided by disability justice principles.
Latino Outdoors
This organization aims to inspire, connect, and engage Latino communities in the outdoors and embrace cultura y familia as part of the outdoor narrative, ensuring Latino history, heritage, and leadership are valued and represented.
LBGT Outdoors
Connecting the LGBTQ+ community to the outdoors and its members to one another to strengthen connections between those in the LBGT community and foster a love for the outdoors.
Native Like Water (NLW)
Native Like Water (NLW) prepares and reintegrates teens and adults into ocean recreation, conservation, wellness, and inter-generational cultural self exploration. Program focuses on an indigenous sacred relationship to water.
Native Women's Wilderness (NWW)
Created to bring Native women together to share stories, support each other, and learn from one another as we endeavor to explore and celebrate the wilderness and our native lands.
Outdoor Afro
Outdoor Afro celebrates and inspires Black connections and leadership in nature. This national not-for-profit organization reconnects Black people to lands, water, and wildlife through outdoor education, recreation, and conservation.

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