🌳Nature is doing more than just offering fresh air — it's helping kids thrive. 🌟 In an interview with Katherine Plog Martinez, Catherine Koons Hubbard, from Camp Fire shares multiple ways spending time outdoors and connecting with nature can support mental well-being for young people. 📊 Catherine highlights a finding from a recent Hello Insight report (in partnership withCamp Fire and the Annie E. Casey Foundation) that looked at 10,000+ youth and found that those in outdoor programs grew stronger in self-confidence, social skills, and emotional resilience — especially when those programs included space for reflection. Want to learn more about the powerful impact of nature? 🔗 Read the Q&A with Catherine: https://bit.ly/4kGLD0l 🔗 Dive into the Hello Insight report: https://bit.ly/4ju2fYe 📸 Lightfield Studios/Adobe Stock 📸 Sergey Novikov/Adobe Stock #CampFire #NatureLearning #OutdoorEducation #YouthDevelopment #SEL #NatureAsTeacher #WholeChild #AccessToNature #ChildrenInNature #GreenSpaces #HealthandMentalHealth #MentalHealth, #PositiveYouthDevelopment #UrbanGreenSpaces #YouthDevelopment #YouthDevelopmentReport #YouthinNature #YouthMentaHhealth #YouthReport (fb)

🧠If we want to transform youth-serving systems and learning ecosystems, we must first transform the mindsets that shape them. This article explores why progress in systems and ecosystems change often stalls — not because of a lack of programs or policies, but because we haven't shifted the ways we see, talk about and value young people and those who support them. It challenges leaders across sectors to reexamine their assumptions, language and relationships — and to center equity, agency and connection. ❗ The call to action? Don’t just redesign the system. Redesign the thinking that drives it. 📍Part of the hashtag#WhenYouthThriveWeAllThrive series. 📖 Read more by @karen_jpittman 🔗https://bit.ly/4jj86iU 📷 CommunityShare #SocialandEmotionalLearning #SEL #StudentDiscipline #StudentBehavior #SchoolDiscipline (fb)