Goals & Outcomes

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Goal 1: Use natural resource-related challenges to develop the skills and knowledge needed to live, work, and play in Maine’s forest communities now and in the future.​​

​OBJECTIVES
 

1. Students will identify natural resource based challenges and generate solutions within their communities to learn and apply the following skills:
        -  listening
        -  presenting and public speaking 
        -  critical thinking
        -  problem solving 
        -  working in a team  
        -  systems thinking
    

2. Students will increase awareness and knowledge about a wide range of both existing and emerging natural resource and industry related careers, innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities. 
    

3. Students will learn skills to sustain and innovate the local natural resource economy in response to a wide variety of challenges in rural Maine communities including those related to economic, climate, regulatory, and technological changes.

 

 

Goal 2: Foster rural youth aspirations through connection between students, schools, and communities.

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  OBJECTIVES

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1. Students will become engaged community members who collaborate with other students, natural resource practitioners, researchers, policymakers, industry professionals, and other community resources to apply available information to forest community development and/or work toward creating authentic solutions to natural resource based challenges and opportunities.
    

2. Students will build upon personal aspirations, their understanding of themselves, and their own connection in the community to develop their agency and advocacy skills for themselves, their families, their peers, and/or their community.
    

3. Students will investigate complex issues facing forests and deepen their own understanding of the unique opportunities and challenges of living and working in rural Maine communities while also seeking to understand and empathize with the perspectives, experiences and history of others.

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Program goals and objectives are subject to change as the Steering Committee develops a framework specific to the Maine Forest Collaborative