Breakout session 2, Monday morning: Managing Citizen Engagement on the Ground

Goals:

-Standardize volunteer training: train volunteers to feel empowered, give volunteers knowledge, encourage them to return
-Get funding for increasing trainings
-Identify specific educational resources
-Use urban parks to bring diversity into nature
-Understand volunteer motivations
-Make volunteer programs sustainable

Actions:

-Make crew leadership mandatory
-Entice volunteers with incentives
-Clearly understand how non-profits coordinate, recruit and manage volunteers. Understand how they relate to agencies and what they need
-Understand the cultural diversity of potential volunteer populations
-Create comprehensive education programs: to get youth outside; bilingual trainings; cultural diversity
-Create opportunities for different layers and levels of volunteers
-Incorporate the mobilization of volunteers into existing work plans of land management agencies
-Develop more ongoing opportunities for smaller-scale groups

Resources:

Funding
Expertise of individuals already involved