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Latest Legal Case: Your Duty of Care—Where Does it Begin and End?

Duty of Care is the legal duty to protect another from harm. It is the first element that must be established to proceed with an action in negligence. When you bring a client into your program, you almost always establish some duty of care to that client. But where does this duty begin and where does it end? A recent sexual assault case in Maine where the assualt happened after the program explores this delicate legal issue and raises some critical questions for things that happen outside your program. Now that many programs are using social networking like Facebook pages, discussion forums, and Twitter as follow-up tools after a program, everyone should understand this legal issue. Reb Gregg and Catherine Hansen-Stamp, the legal authorities at the Adventure & Recreation Law Center, review the details of this Maine case. Subscribe now and gain access to the complete library of Legal Cases.

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  • Wilderness Medicine

    What is Wilderness Medicine?

    How does one start a blog - prime the pump so to speak. How about with thoughts on a definition? Back in the day, only 30 or so years ago, many of us, and the practice of wilderness medicine, were in our youth. As I sat through a boring and not very practical...
  • GREENFIRE

    Industrial Strength Recreation? Greening Outdoor Education

    A few years ago, I attended the ICORE conference in Salt Lake City where I heard a presenter describe the dramatic increase in usage of wilderness areas in the U.S. as "Industrial Strength" recreation. At the time, there was an interesting debate...
  • Rick Curtis' Blog

    Unnecessary Death in the Desert

    On July 17, 2006 David Buschow died while on the first day of a 28-day wilderness survival course. What happened raises some critical questions about the way that all of us think about our responsibilities as outdoor educators....
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Get 'em Outside

http://www.nclicoalition.org to increase environmental education opportunities at your school. Celebrating...
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Princeton University Outdoor Action Sustainability Initiative

This video from the Communications Office at Princeton University follows backpacking and climbing group...
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Outward Bound Professional

Specializing in team and leadership development, Outward Bound Professional draws from more then 37 years...
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Patagonia Oceans As Wilderness- Synthetic Seas

As part of our Oceans as Wilderness campaign, we present one of four video shorts from "Research...
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TED: Shimon Schocken's rides of hope

Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons...
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