Community-Centered Programs
Soul Trak’s Community Programming is designed to use the outdoors and its many activities as a setting to promote engagement, push boundaries, educate its participants, and strengthen the community. Soul Trak welcomes individuals from all walks of life and levels of outdoor experience. From novices to experts, this is a setting for anyone looking to learn, teach, and connect with others in the outdoors. One of the most effective ways to promote diversity outside is through adequate representation. From there, we engage in service-learning initiatives where we take ownership over the very land that provides us with enjoyable moments in nature. We nurture it, look after it, and protect it.
Connecting Urban Communities
Connecting urban communities of color to natural spaces and recreational outlets
Facilitate skill based instruction
Facilitate educational and skill based instruction to expand understanding and interest for public lands
Engagement
Engage minorities to develop a representative community in the outdoors that reflects our nation.
The outdoors is a setting that can bring people from all walks of life together, while also serving as a classroom for life lessons, skill development, sense of place, and outdoor stewardship.
Our Vision
To act as a bridge to wild spaces by uplifting outdoor leaders of diverse backgrounds and create an outdoors that more accurately reflects the diversity of our nation.
Our Mission
Our mission is to build diverse cohorts of outdoor leaders, forge inclusive outdoor spaces, facilitate stronger outdoor communities for underrepresented groups and use outdoor adventure as a catalyst for creating new stewards of public lands.
WHY Soul Trak?
While the National Park Service (NPS) turned 100 last year, African Americans still represent only about seven percent of park visitors. In comparison, they make up thirteen percent of the national population. Latinos, Native Americans, and other non-white visitors are similarly underrepresented. The rest—some 78 percent—are white. Soul Trak is directly engaging all levels communities of color; we believe that all people of color everyone regardless of background, economic status, age, or gender should be exposed to outdoor spaces, recreational passtimes, and educational tools.
WHO IS Soul Trak FOR?
Soul Trak targets communities of color at a variety of different levels. We provide programming to youth, young adults and adult ages community members seeking adventure and learning. We a wide range of activities such as hiking, paddling, climbing, biking, camping, and a variety of other trips planned all year long. We use these spaces as a classroom to expand knowledge around outdoor advocacy, skill building, community engagement, enivornmental science and leadership building.
Soul Trak STRIVES TO BRIDGE THE GAP.
There is currently a vast gap between minorities participating in outdoor spaces. This gap is the result of many different barriers - Soul Trak seeks to tackle these barriers with the intentions of connecting new communities to the outdoors and creating stewards for this planet’s green spaces.
PARTNER WITH US
Our partnerships offer important support towards our work. We are committed to connecting broader audiences with nature and changing the face of leadership in the outdoors. If you are passionate about this also and want to help us in this work, please reach out to us here (link).
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