Education & Outreach 

Colorado Water Education Task Force 

Survey Results are in, with 292 water education providers responding. View preliminary results here. 

For preliminary Survey and Focus Group Report, click here.

Haven't taken the survey yet, please click here. 

For more, view the Scope of Work or download task force milestones. 

Survey Background:

This survey is conducted by the Colorado Water Education Task Force (WETF), which is an initiative funded by the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) in partnership with the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education (CAEE) and Colorado Watershed Network (CWN).  In order to better understand the current status of water education in Colorado, we are using this survey to gather information from as many water education providers as possible.

We ask you to help us by sharing details of your organization’s work and your ideas of ways to improve the current situation.  Your responses will be used to compile a catalog of water education programs and materials currently available in Colorado.  Survey results will be discussed in Focus Group meetings during January and a final report will be compiled by March 2008.  The final report will be freely available in electronic form so we can all use this information as a springboard to improve the availability and efficacy of water education in the future.

Scope of Work

Goal I. Plan for Success: 

^{The planning committee met October 29th to confer on the scope of work and initiate the first components of the project. This committee comprised of a small group of water education professionals including Veva McCaig, Reagan Waskom, Wendy Hanophy, Jacob Bornstein, Jo Scarbeary, Doug Kemper, Rob Buirgy, Ali Sweeney, Dan McAuliffe, and Diane Hoppe.} 

^{(See 10/29 meeting notes  here.)}

^{The goal of the October 29th meeting was to plan for a successful survey and a productive series of task force and focus group meetings. During this meeting we accomplished the following:}

1. Finalized survey format and questions.

2. Developed the basic structure of the focus groups (e.g. Youth, adult, and state government.).

3. Generated a list of groups and individuals to participate in the survey, task force, and focus groups.

4. Assigned responsibilities for contacting participants.

^{During the month of November, members of the planning committee finalized the lists of participants, finalized the survey, and planned the November 29th task force meeting.} 

^{(See 11/29 meeting notes here.)}

^{The task force met for the first time on November 29th, with 23 people attending. The goals of this meeting were to orient task force members to the objectives of this initiative, fine-tune the schedule, review plans for the survey, plan focus group meetings and discuss production of the final report. During this meeting we accomplished the following:}

1. Finalized membership in the task force and agreed on roles of task force members.

2. Finalized the scope of work, milestones and schedule. Established March 1, 2008 completion date.
3. Reviewed and edited the survey format and questions.

4. Agreed on preliminary concepts for focus group participation and critical outcomes.