Featured in Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine Fall 2015 Issue Building Trust in Treetops Evidence shows police-youth program works in Baltimore Story by Salma Warshanna-Sparklin • Photography by Chris Myers Precariously balanced on cables 25 feet above the ground in Leakin Park, a Baltimore kid and a police trainee are terrified—together. Starting at the tips of… READ MORE >
Greetings from the GOAL (Get Out And Lead) course! We had a diverse and fantastic group of 12 scholarship students from across Maryland this year. I was impressed with the engagement and mindset of each one, and valued the fact that they each brought a very different perspective and story to our course. From private… READ MORE >
Recently our team at Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School had the pleasure of working with interns TaKyia and Andrew from Green Street Academy. These two bright students took every challenge we threw at them in stride, in true Outward Bound fashion. On their last day, we had them reflect on their internship experiences which… READ MORE >
HOMEPLACE, OUR HOME IN BWCAW Homeplace, which many of the CBOBS staff have had the honor of calling home, is the affectionate and well earned name of the Ely, MN base camp of the Voyageur Outward Bound School situated at a jump off into one of the most pristine Wilderness areas in USA: The Boundary… READ MORE >
Baltimore and D.C. string together one of the most densely populated and traffic-congested metropolitan areas on the East Coast. Therefore you wouldn’t imagine that kayaking on the Chesapeake Bay that borders it could feel surprisingly remote. Perhaps the factor that prevents me from considering this kayaking experience remote, insofar as it wasn’t entirely peaceful, is that I was travelling in a… READ MORE >