• Home
  • About Us
    • Our Team
    • Our Board
    • Youth Leaders
    • Founders and Key Leaders
    • Partners and Funders
    • Former GUB Team Members
  • Our Impact
  • Services
    • Training
    • Speaking Engagements
  • Get Involved
    • Subscribe
    • Internships and Volunteers
    • Contact Us
  • Resources
    • Impact Reports and Newsletters
    • Project List and Reports
    • Boulder's Child- and Teen- Friendly City Maps >
      • About the Map
      • Child-Friendly City Map
      • Teen-Friendly City Map
      • Sponsor Boulder's Child-Friendly City Map
    • Picture Books for Social Justice
    • Digital Tutorials for Youth
    • Media by GUB Team
    • Healing Resources
  • News
    • Press
    • GUB Blog
  • Donate
GROWING UP BOULDER
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Team
    • Our Board
    • Youth Leaders
    • Founders and Key Leaders
    • Partners and Funders
    • Former GUB Team Members
  • Our Impact
  • Services
    • Training
    • Speaking Engagements
  • Get Involved
    • Subscribe
    • Internships and Volunteers
    • Contact Us
  • Resources
    • Impact Reports and Newsletters
    • Project List and Reports
    • Boulder's Child- and Teen- Friendly City Maps >
      • About the Map
      • Child-Friendly City Map
      • Teen-Friendly City Map
      • Sponsor Boulder's Child-Friendly City Map
    • Picture Books for Social Justice
    • Digital Tutorials for Youth
    • Media by GUB Team
    • Healing Resources
  • News
    • Press
    • GUB Blog
  • Donate

Eco-Healing with Youth

Eco-Healing with Youth

Inspiring Emotional Resilience through Wildfire Interpretation and Climate Action in the Wake of Boulder Fires

A collaboration between Growing Up Boulder, the City of Boulder, CU’s Environmental Design program, and other partners, the Eco-Healing with Youth project facilitates youth engagement regarding educational media and programming, service-learning opportunities, and small-scale sustainable interpretive infrastructure for both the Marshall Fire and NCAR fire, in ways that respond sensitively to collective trauma and inspire hope for the future. 

The Eco-Healing with Youth project objectives include:
  1. Elevating young voices in understanding and interpreting the range of experiences and emotions stemming from the Marshall Fire, the NCAR fire, and climate change in general
  2. Honoring and adopting best practices regarding collective trauma regarding the primary events (Marshall Fire, NCAR fire) and the secondary trauma of climate crisis/stress. 
  3. Prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, surfacing underrepresented voices and welcoming traditionally marginalized communities

The work will result in a collection of feedback that focuses on fire and restoration, climate change & resilience, and connection to nature.  Resulting from the collected feedback, youth will develop conceptual designs for interpretive interventions (such as educational media and programming, service-learning opportunities, small sustainable interpretive infrastructure) along a trail in the Marshall Mesa area to tell these stories, deepen connections to place, and inspire informed climate action as well as support resilience for young people.

Junior Ranger Leadership Crew Eco-Healing Engagement

Middle School Prep Camp Engagement

*Growing Up Boulder (GUB) is Boulder's child-friendly city initiative. A formal partnership between the City of Boulder, Boulder Valley School District, and the University of Colorado, GUB became a nonprofit in spring 2021 under the fiscal sponsorship of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center (CNDC). Since 2009, GUB has worked with over 7,500 children and youth on more than 100 projects.

    Growing Up Boulder Newsletter

Subscribe to GUB Newsletter
Picture
Contact Us
© COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Team
    • Our Board
    • Youth Leaders
    • Founders and Key Leaders
    • Partners and Funders
    • Former GUB Team Members
  • Our Impact
  • Services
    • Training
    • Speaking Engagements
  • Get Involved
    • Subscribe
    • Internships and Volunteers
    • Contact Us
  • Resources
    • Impact Reports and Newsletters
    • Project List and Reports
    • Boulder's Child- and Teen- Friendly City Maps >
      • About the Map
      • Child-Friendly City Map
      • Teen-Friendly City Map
      • Sponsor Boulder's Child-Friendly City Map
    • Picture Books for Social Justice
    • Digital Tutorials for Youth
    • Media by GUB Team
    • Healing Resources
  • News
    • Press
    • GUB Blog
  • Donate