How to evaluate the safety of gap year programs

Calling out all gappers and gapper parents 📣 are you leaving home for your gap year adventure either to another country or continent entirely?! While this is super exciting, it can be very intimidating and anxiety inducing.

But, you are in luck because we have safety expert Dave from Cornerstone who's going to walk us through how we can look at risk in a different way and how we can evaluate different program providers for the level of safety they're able to provide us when we are on the ground with them.

You don’t want to miss this, take a listen! 

Topics Discussed

• Meet safety expert Dave and learn about Cornerstone Safety Group.
• Safety green flags to look out for in experiential gap year programs. 
• Risk and Safety in 3 Core Buckets 
  • Understanding yourself and onboarding with the program. 
  • Developing support systems within your group. 
  • Managing events when they arise.

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

• Cornerstone Safety Group: https://www.cornerstonesafetygroup.org/ 
• Get support to light up your gap year! Book a free 30-min call: https://www.cangap.ca/call

 

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