Oakland Goes Outdoors

Spending quality time outdoors has proven health, social-emotional, and academic benefits. Yet barriers prevent all youth from having equal access to outdoors experiences.

Oakland Goes Outdoors (OGO) works to create more accessible and equitable opportunities for Oakland youth to experience the outdoors, through inclusive, culturally informed, skills-building trips.

As a result of this partnership, all students at Frick United are guaranteed at least 2 outdoor grade-level field trips per year. Additionally, OGO helps us organize academic field trips as well as incentive field trips to reward students for excellence in academic achievement, attendance, and citizenship.
 

Benefits of Outdoor Education

• Improved academic performance
• Improved physical and mental health
• Increased motivation and engagement
• Hands on Learning
• Improved Attendance