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 MISSION OBA Mission Statement: To provide meaningful nature-based education that promotes positive self-development, environmental responsibility, and outdoor career exposure for urban youth.Purpose The 10 Key Operational and Program Principals - To give more in service than we receive in revenue and to always give our best to those who have the least.
- To be an organization that promotes self empowerment and dignity over sympathetic charity, promotes personal accountability and community commitment over inaction, by requiring all participants regardless of income level to invest some amount for their OBA experience.
- To serve underserved urban and low-income populations and their families, by providing meaningful and educational contact with nature that results in a greater appreciation of wilderness, self, family and community. OBA programs shall create access and desire for return visits and opportunity for volunteer service and employment.
- OBA programs will advance cultural, class and ethnic diversity and ensure equal access and opportunity for all to enjoy and learn in the wilderness and engage in nature-based recreation and employment.
- OBA programs shall be designed to promote environmental stewardship and upgrade academic, social and self mastery skills through challenging outdoor learning experiences.
- OBA programs shall be designed with multiple entrance points so that a participant can enter into any program and then go on to engage in other OBA programs. Programs shall create opportunities for full family participation, long term involvement and opportunity for participants to advance to staff positions
- OBA shall recruit staff that look like and have backgrounds similar to the youth and families we serve. Staff shall come from the communities we serve.
- OBA shall seek out staff that have made education a priority in their life and ensure that staff that haven’t made education a priority do so while at OBA.
- To become a leader in OBA senior staff is required to mentor at least one junior staff and or Youth Advisory Council member under the Raising Mentor program format.
- OBA seeks to establish deep relationships with participants by creating opportunities for long term engagement in all programs. Participants will be encouraged to be involved in OBA programs for a minimum of three years
OBA's Six Cornerstones Eco-Literacy | Physical Fitness | Social Action | Community & Family | Self-Mastery | Employment / Life Skills |
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