This webinar will introduce the emerging role of outdoor recreation and restoration activities as therapeutic and resilience building for this generation’s returning warriors. Special attention will be given to better identifying and understanding the role of “care-giver” in these emergent outdoor recreation and restoration programs for veterans, and then exploring what training needs might exist for these unique caregivers.
How to Join the Webinar:
- To connect to this webinar, which is hosted by DoD, you must install security certificates if you are not on a military installation. Instructions for can be found:http://create.extension.org/sites/default/files/DCODoDCertificateInstallation.pdf
- For those who cannot connect to the Adobe site, an alternative viewing of this webinar will be running on Ustream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/milfamln
- Also you can connect to the Adobe webinars using the iPhone, iPad, and Droid apps. Search for DCO Connect in the respective stores.
- No registration is required.
Presenter
Keith G. Tidball, PhD is a veteran and social scientist in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University where he studies the human dimensions of natural resource management in disaster and war.
Panel Presenter
Ray Rainbolt serves as the fish and wildlife program manager for the U.S. Army at the Fort Drum Military Installation in northern New York.
For more information on Returning Warriors and additional work by Dr. Tidball go to http://reworrr.blogspot.com/
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