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Alaska Stat. § 47.21.020 (2026)
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Sec. 47.21.020. Program.
(a) An adventure-based education program must include provisions for the following phases:
(1) Phase I: Basic Skills Learning
(A) physical conditioning: running, hiking, swimming, and other related activities;
(B) technical training: the use of specialized tools and equipment, camping, cooking, map reading, navigation, life saving, drown proofing, and solo survival;
(C) safety training: first aid skills, emergency care, preventative medicine, nutrition, health, and personal hygiene care;
(D) team training: rescue techniques, evacuation exercises, and fire fighting;
(E) solo: solitary living for a short period with minimal equipment;
(F) interpersonal skills training: coping skills, individual and group problem solving, and societal communication skills;
(G) culturally relevant activities: traditional modes of subsistence living, traveling and surviving in wilderness areas and communities in the state, and cross-cultural experiences;
(2) Phase II: Skills Generalization
(A) vocational counseling and placement;
(B) family and interpersonal counseling;
(C) community systems utilization: transportation, community services systems, and community problem solving.
(b) Criteria for adventure-based education programs shall be established by the Department of Family and Community Services and must include provisions for
(1) staff members with background experience in Outward Bound, NOLS, Alaska Wilderness Experience, Inc., or other similar wilderness skills programs or Indigenous cultural experience;
(2) minimum program standards.
Chapter 23. Child Support Enforcement Agency.
[Renumbered as AS 25.27.010 — 25.27.900.]
Chapter 24. Protection of Vulnerable Adults.
(a) An adventure-based education program must include provisions for the following phases:
(1) Phase I: Basic Skills Learning
(A) physical conditioning: running, hiking, swimming, and other related activities;
(B) technical training: the use of specialized tools and equipment, camping, cooking, map reading, navigation, life saving, drown proofing, and solo survival;
(C) safety training: first aid skills, emergency care, preventative medicine, nutrition, health, and personal hygiene care;
(D) team training: rescue techniques, evacuation exercises, and fire fighting;
(E) solo: solitary living for a short period with minimal equipment;
(F) interpersonal skills training: coping skills, individual and group problem solving, and societal communication skills;
(G) culturally relevant activities: traditional modes of subsistence living, traveling and surviving in wilderness areas and communities in the state, and cross-cultural experiences;
(2) Phase II: Skills Generalization
(A) vocational counseling and placement;
(B) family and interpersonal counseling;
(C) community systems utilization: transportation, community services systems, and community problem solving.
(b) Criteria for adventure-based education programs shall be established by the Department of Family and Community Services and must include provisions for
(1) staff members with background experience in Outward Bound, NOLS, Alaska Wilderness Experience, Inc., or other similar wilderness skills programs or Indigenous cultural experience;
(2) minimum program standards.
Chapter 23. Child Support Enforcement Agency.
[Renumbered as AS 25.27.010 — 25.27.900.]Chapter 24. Protection of Vulnerable Adults.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1984–1984 · leading case: State, Dep't of Health & Soc. Servs. v. A.C., 682 P.2d 1131 (Alaska Ct. App. 1984).
State, Dep't of Health & Soc. Servs. v. A.C., 682 P.2d 1131 (Alaska Ct. App. 1984). “(5) order the minor committed to the Department of Health and Social Services for placement in an adventure-based education program established under AS 47.21.020 with conditions the court considers appropriate concerning release upon satisfactory completion of the program or…”
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