Educational Programs
Who We Offer educational programs For
Working Professionals
CUSP training designed for professionals in the conservation, restoration and regulatory field provide attendees with familiarity in soil bioengineering techniques and community planning processes. County, city, flood control, regulatory, and RCD staff can benefit from a new set of tools to offer to your constituents and to use in project implementation in your jurisdictions and localities.
Volunteer Groups
Friends of creek groups, native plant societies, and the general public can work together with CUSP to arrange workshops that serve to both restore public spaces and parks, as well as provide a learning opportunity for the greater community.
Schools and Classrooms
Speaking engagements with universities, high schools, environmental organizations, government agencies, classes and the public are available. Partnerships with schools that are interested in restoration projects on their property are welcome as well!
Workshops, Lectures and More
CUSP’s staff and advisory board hold expertise in a wide range of topics relating to urban creek restoration. We regularly host public workshops and lectures on topics spanning the many interdisciplinary aspects of urban streams.
We are passionate about making stream restoration accessible, practical and prolific. We would love to work with your organization! Our programming is offered on sliding scale fees, according to the need and ability of participating organizations.
Please contact us to discuss arranging an educational program with your organization.
Workshops
Workshops provide a hands-on environment in which participants gain direct experience in utilizing soil bioengineering techniques to restore impacted stream systems. CUSP provides the plant materials and tools, and instructs participants in how to install posts, stakes, fascines, brush matting, and more. This hands-on instruction provides participants with the necessary technical understanding, skills and techniques to apply these restoration practices in their own settings.
Lectures
Lectures draw upon our expertise in the science, engineering, planning, community organizing and implementation of urban stream restoration. Our speakers can present on topics a variety of topics and can work with your organization to provide training that meet your needs. Presentations include: Out-dated Stream Management; Restoration: What and Why; Soil Bioengineering 101 and 201; Organizing Communities to Restore Neighborhood Streams; Navigating the Permitting Process; Community-Based Planning. Lectures provide practical advice about how to organize, plan, permit and implement these low-cost and highly effective strategies for bank stabilization, well as theory and science of stream restoration and soil bioengineering. The methods we promote provide benefits to the environment while avoiding the chronic failures of structural works such as retaining walls, gabions and riprap.
Workshops and lectures can be combined for one full day of activities or a weekend-long / two day intensive course.
other offerings
CUSP offers watershed tours of streams that our staff and board have been involved in restoring. Creek tours throughout the Bay Area can be arranged. CUSP is also available for speaking engagements at events and conferences, online classes and webinars.
