For Youth and Families

Because no matter who you are, no matter where you live, our parks, our monuments, our lands, our waters — these places are your birthright as Americans."

President Barack Obama

ANGELES CHAPTER SIERRA CLUB PROGRAMS

The Angeles Chapter provides opportunities for youth and their families to GET OUTDOORS and explore, enjoy and protect our natural world.
 

• Angeles Chapter Activities
  Many outings and events list in our Schedule of Activites are family-friendly and most are free. Check out our advice on Easy Hikes here. For information on minors on outings, please visit the Rules and Guidelines page.
   
• Inspiring Connections Outdoors (ICO)
  Angeles ICO is a community outreach program that provides outdoor opportunities for urban youth and adults. Through these outings, ICO promotes interpersonal skills and self-esteem by involving participants in teamwork, teaching them self-reliance outside an urban setting, and encouraging them to take an active role in protecting the environment.  As its participants discover the beauty of wild lands, ICO also helps the Club build support for environmental protection in urban communities across the country.

• Little Hikers/Junior Explorers 
  The Angeles Chapter’s Little Hikers/Junior Explorers conducts a program of outdoor activities for families with children.  Typical outings include car camps, day hikes, picnics or skiing.  We provide a unique opportunity for our children to learn about conservation —  to explore, enjoy and protect the wilderness.  All outings are family outings; each child must be accompanied by a parent, grandparent or other responsible adult.  Events are also suitable for beginning hikers and newcomers are welcome!
   

NATIONAL PROGRAMS

The Sierra Club has joined forces with other organizations to advance policies and implement strategies for connecting youth with the outdoors:

• EVERY KID IN A PARK! To help engage and create our next generation of park visitors, supporters and advocates, the White House, in partnership with the Federal Land Management agencies, launched the Every Kid in a Park initiative. The immediate goal is to provide an opportunity for each and every 4th grade student across the country to experience their federal public lands and waters in person, and beginning September 1 2015, all kids in the fourth grade have access to their own Every Kid in a Park pass at www.everykidinapark.gov. This pass provides free access to national parks, national forests, national wildlife refuges, and more!

• Outdoors Alliance for Kids (OAK) Outdoors Alliance for Kids is a national strategic partnership of organizations from diverse sectors with the common interest of expanding the number and quality of opportunities for children, youth and families to connect with the outdoors.  The Sierra Club is the founder and chair of OAK.
   
• No Child Left Inside The Sierra Club is a member of the No Child Left Inside Coalition which supports incentives for incorporating environmental education into public school curricula across the nation.