About the Alliance
The Child and Nature Alliance of Canada is a network of organizations and individuals who are working to connect children to nature through education, advocacy, programming, policy, research, and the built environment. Our vision is that all children and families in Canada are connected with nature and the outdoors in order to enhance their health and well-being. Our work aims to connect Canada’s children and families with nature and the outdoors in the settings where they live, play, learn and work.
Ensuring All Canadian Children and Families Get Outside and Play!
After three years of work by The Kesho Trust, the Child and Nature Alliance of Canada (Society) was formally registered in March 2009 and launched at the Get Outside! It’s in Our Nature Forum at Royal Roads University. The Alliance was created as a vehicle for developing a deliberate and comprehensive strategy in Canada to reconnect children and youth to nature. Our work builds on the movement initiated by Richard Louv’s book, Last Child in the Woods. Working in collaboration with the Children and Nature Network, the Alliance seeks to provide a Canadian context to the worldwide movement to enhance children’s health and well-being by reconnecting them to the outdoors.
The goals of the Child and Nature Alliance of Canada are:
Health | Education | Environment
Want to know more?
Download the Child and Nature Alliance of Canada Summary
How did we get here? Download the Alliance’s Preliminary Framing Document & Logic Model.
We are grateful for the financial support we receive from Mountain Equipment Co-op and the Vancouver Foundation.
In collaboration with the Children and Nature Network
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