Programs

SOS Outreach is a youth development charity. Our mission is to inspire youth to make positive decisions for successful lives.

All SOS Outreach programs offer our value-based leadership curriculum that enhances the experience for students by promoting self-respect, positive relationships, social skills, and positive values. Students discover the meaning of our 5 core values: courage, discipline, integrity, wisdom, and compassion. SOS Sherpas (adult mentors) encourage the students to uncover the way these values affect their everyday actions.

Throughout our growth, SOS Outreach has successfully leveraged partnerships with youth agencies, mountain resorts, the US Forest Service and donors to increase the number of youth served. In the 2009-2010 season, 5,190 youth participated in SOS programs.

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Program Offerings

SOS Outreach Adventure Programs
SOS Outreach Adventure Programs are one-day programs that focus on SOS’s core-value curriculum by exposing youth to a new sport or experience. The goal of SOS Outreach's Adventure Programs is to transition students from one-day programs to SOS’s perennial multi-year experiential learning, SnowCore, Rock Climbing, Teams Course, Winter Adventure Course, Outdoor Living Skills, Peak Ascent

SOS Outreach Academy Programs
SOS Outreach Academy is a multi-day program in which a new SOS Outreach core values is introduced each day. Learn to Ride, Ski, or Telemark, Wilderness Trips and Base Camp Programs, Hut Trips, 4th Grade Monument Trips

SOS Outreach University Programs
Our most intensive program, SOS University, requires that students commit to a four-year program, with each year requiring an increased commitment to community service and personal growth. Students engage in year-round leadership training with a consistent adult mentor, take part in service learning and life skills workshops as well as participate in skiing, snowboarding and/or summer wilderness experiences.

SOS Outreach Junior Sherpa Society Program
Our peer mentoring program, Junior Sherpas, includes SOS University graduates. Junior Sherpas undergo intensive peer mentor and leadership training and aid their experiences, skills, leadership and mentoring to incoming SOS University students.

Program Focus
SOS Outreach Core Values, Outdoor Physical Activity, Teamwork, Appreciation of Environment, Mentorship, Social Justice, Service Learning, Healthy Minds and Bodies, Leadership Development, Peer Mentorship, Environmental Stewardship, Character Development, Promote Diversity in Society, Communication Skills and New Social Media

Register for any Winter Sports program including the Junior Sherpa program, Learn to Ride, Learn to Ski, or the University program for Winter Sports.

Register for any Summer program, including the Monument Trip, Peak Ascent, Rock Climbing, Teams Course, or a Wilderness Trip.