How At Risk Youth & Rescued Animals Change Each Other's Lives | Jamie Dawson | TEDxLehighRiverStudio

How At Risk Youth & Rescued Animals Change Each Other's Lives | Jamie Dawson | TEDxLehighRiverStudio
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In this talk, Jamie Dawson explores the extraordinary impact that animals in distress have on at-risk youth and vice versa.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format, but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Jamie is the Director of Education at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary – the world’s first refuge for birds of prey – where she oversees all local-to-global education programming, including expanding the sanctuary’s global reach through international education training. Jamie is also the co-founder and Board President of the Barn Nature Center Foundation, an educational animal sanctuary for rescued and re-homed exotic companion animals.

Jamie is the former Chief Operating Officer for Youth Services Agency (YSA), and the former Director of the Barn Nature Center, and YSA Nature Center. In her past roles, Jamie, along with her family, has developed animal sanctuaries for rescued companion animals to provide experience-based educational, therapeutic, and recreational opportunities for at-risk youth and communities, as well as adventure and team-building programming in efforts to strengthen connections between youth and the natural world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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