
Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: COVID-19 is a free course, available to anyone, designed to help outdoor and experiential programs manage risks associated with infectious disease, pandemic and related public health concerns.
This legacy training experience, developed in 2020, pertains to the historic COVID-19 pandemic. However, elements of the curriculum may be relevant to preventing and managing pandemics and other public health concerns in the future.
ENROLL NOWThe video below previews a few minutes of course content, from one of the course’s video-based lecture presentations.

Components
The course includes the four elements:
In the ‘Lectures’ section, three video presentations:
- General Principles (6 minutes)
- Best Medical Practices (11 minutes)
- Systems-Informed Response (10 minutes)
Activities Section
- Four question-and-answer discussion forums, to extend and personalize course material
- A self-assessment checklist outdoor and experiential programs may use to evaluate their pandemic risk management


Assessment Section
A 10-question quiz to test your knowledge of course content
Supplementary Materials
A PDF version of the text of the lecture presentations is made available as a downloadable reference document
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Open to Anyone
This educational resource is offered at no cost.
Easy Enrollment.Participate at Any Time.
The course is hosted on Viristar’s e-learning platform. To take part in the course:
Go to https://learn.viristar.com/course/view.php?id=18 and create an account with a username and password.
Use course key “Awareness2020” when you validate your email address.
Then, you’ll be ready to log in and complete the course at any time that’s convenient for you.
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