Join Harpswell Heritage Land Trust and Wild Maine Med for Rescue Rangers: First Aid and Survival Skills Camp!

This camp is an immersive, hands-on adventure designed to teach kids essential first aid and survival skills in a fun, engaging, and action-packed environment. Throughout the week, campers will participate in interactive activities, including choose-your-own-adventure games to assess risk, and realistic first aid scenarios where they’ll practice responding to common injuries and emergencies. They will also tackle exciting group survival challenges such as shelter building, fire making, and map navigation, all while working together to apply their skills in a team setting.

Campers will have the opportunity to interview local first responders, gaining valuable insight into emergency preparedness and creating personalized emergency response plans tailored to their needs. They’ll also assemble their own first aid kits, learning to be ready for a variety of situations. The camp culminates in a skit presentation where kids will showcase their newly acquired skills and knowledge to their families, leaving with the confidence and know-how to prevent, assess, and respond to emergencies both at home and in the wilderness.

This camp is designed for children ages 8-13 and runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Camp runs Monday-Friday for one week, with three sessions:

• July 28 – August 1
• August 4 – 8
• August 11 – 15

Each week of camp will host up to 15 campers. Please note that camp registration is on a first come, first served basis. If all three weeks are full, you are welcome to join the waitlist. Each week of camp needs a minimum of 12 campers.

 

REGISTER FOR WEEK 1

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Wild Maine Med is run by Courtney Cronin. Courtney is a Wilderness EMT, SOLO Wilderness Medicine Instructor, and experiential educator with over 20 years of experience leading outdoor-based and international travel programs. She did her first WFA course when she was 14, got Wilderness First Responder certified at 18, and EMT certified when she was 20. She has worked on a 911-response ambulance in Maine, trained over 150 people from Indigenous communities in Guatemala and Mexico in First Aid, and certified over 200 people in the last year in Wilderness First Aid. She has spent the better part of the last 25 years traveling around the US and Central America. First, as a part of her traveling high school, where she lived out of a converted school bus and slept in tents every night for 4 years as she embarked on learning expeditions around the US and Northern Mexico. Then, in adulthood, leading expeditions–from month-long canoe trips with adjudicated youth with Outward Bound to customized service trips for students to Guatemala with her non-profit Rising Minds. And, most recently, traveling with her family–from following animal migration routes to Mexico to commercial fishing in Southeast Alaska to learning about the pulse of the world in Antarctica. She is so passionate about bringing empowering, immersive educational opportunities to communities to help build a greater connection to ourselves, our place, and each other.