About the Alliance
What is the Child and Nature Alliance?
Around the world, there is a growing movement to reconnect children and families to nature for improved health and wellbeing. Internationally catalyzed by the Children and Nature Network based in the United States, we launched a Canadian component called the Child and Nature Alliance Society in March 2009. The Alliance is a virtual network of organizations and individuals who are working to connect children to nature through education, advocacy, programming, policy, research, care-giving, and the built environment.
The Alliance’s short-term goal is to build a sustainable and highly effective organization that has sufficient capacity to adapt and thrive over the long-term. This goal is guided by the following objectives:
- Develop a strong organizational foundation for governance, programming and funding;
- Ensure that the Alliance is partnered with a broad range of sectors (including health, early childhood, the built environment & urban planning);
- Establish an online presence for the Alliance and ensure that our website is reliable, useful and engaging;
- Authentically engage youth leadership in the development, governance and membership of the Alliance;
- Establish a geographically, culturally and ethnically diverse membership base; and
- Develop a strategy for expanding the Alliance across Canada.
For the latest on the Alliance, read our background documents:
How did we get here? See the Alliance’s Preliminary Framing Document by downloading it here Preliminary Framing Document - PDF
Do you have a story of how your life has been influenced by spending time outdoors when you were a child? Please send us your stories and we’ll post selected ones here on our site.