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Colorado nonprofit will launch free outdoor skills school for people of color this summer

Nonprofit Blackpackers landed a $241,000 grant to host five- and two-day workshops in at YMCA Camp Shady Brook

Colorado nonprofit Blackpackers curates outdoor excursions for people of color, providing gear to everyone who joins free to charge, in an effort to diverse recreational spaces. The organization is launching an outdoor skills school in summer 2023 to teach wilderness first response and first aid. Founder and executive director Patricia Cameron teaches wilderness first response at Red Rocks Community College. (Provided by Blackpackers)
Colorado nonprofit Blackpackers curates outdoor excursions for people of color, providing gear to everyone who joins free to charge, in an effort to diverse recreational spaces. The organization is launching an outdoor skills school in summer 2023 to teach wilderness first response and first aid. Founder and executive director Patricia Cameron teaches wilderness first response at Red Rocks Community College. (Provided by Blackpackers)
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The Blackpackers Outdoor Skills School, or BOSS, will provide wilderness first response and wilderness first aid training to people of color and individuals from other groups traditionally underrepresented in the outdoors free of charge.
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