EnRoute Consulting: Personalized Gap Year Planning
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About Program
EnRoute's founder Julia Rogers is on a mission to make it easier for young people to take a gap year. As an accredited gap year consultant with 16+ years of experience, Julia combines deep knowledge of the gap year world with a friendly, personalized approach. She’s traveled the globe researching opportunities first-hand and brings her passion for amazing experiences into every student's unique planning journey.
Julia's specialty areas include:
- Helping students organize gap year itineraries with multiple programs in several locations
- Supporting students in designing their own independent travel and experiential itineraries for part or all of their year
- Ensuring that a student crafts a meaningful and fun year that remains true to their personality and goals for their gap time
- Last-minute gap year planning - there's always time to plan something great!
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Diversity & Inclusion 💙
BIPOC Support
EnRoute wholeheartedly welcomes all people, regardless of their age, culture, disabilities, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, marital status, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status.
As a part of our commitment to foster an environment of trust with our clients, we abide by these guiding principles:
We acknowledge and honor the fundamental value and dignity of all individuals.
We strive to create an atmosphere that is inclusive of all.
We pledge ourselves to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences.
We are committed to addressing issues of equity and justice in the travel industry through continued education, advocacy and personal interaction.
As a part of our commitment to foster an environment of trust with our clients, we abide by these guiding principles:
We acknowledge and honor the fundamental value and dignity of all individuals.
We strive to create an atmosphere that is inclusive of all.
We pledge ourselves to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences.
We are committed to addressing issues of equity and justice in the travel industry through continued education, advocacy and personal interaction.
LGBTQIA+ Support
EnRoute wholeheartedly welcomes all people, regardless of their age, culture, disabilities, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, marital status, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status.
As a part of our commitment to foster an environment of trust with our clients, we abide by these guiding principles:
We acknowledge and honor the fundamental value and dignity of all individuals.
We strive to create an atmosphere that is inclusive of all.
We pledge ourselves to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences.
We are committed to addressing issues of equity and justice in the travel industry through continued education, advocacy and personal interaction.
As a part of our commitment to foster an environment of trust with our clients, we abide by these guiding principles:
We acknowledge and honor the fundamental value and dignity of all individuals.
We strive to create an atmosphere that is inclusive of all.
We pledge ourselves to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences.
We are committed to addressing issues of equity and justice in the travel industry through continued education, advocacy and personal interaction.
Impact 🌎
Sustainability
EnRoute is a proud member of 1% for the Planet
Ethical Impact
EnRoute acknowledges the fact that travel and volunteering can be a force for great good. It can also be extremely problematic. We do our best to foster respectful travel and volunteering by our students.
To this end, we have developed a set of standards that we use as our guide when counseling students on volunteering opportunities:
Vulnerable Peoples: We discourage volunteers without appropriate training to work with orphans or other vulnerable children.
Medical Work: We do not recommend programs that allow untrained volunteers to conduct medical procedures on patients. We do support programs that allow shadowing, non-invasive procedures (e.g. taking blood pressure) and public health projects provided they meet our other standards for recommendation.
Child Protection: We encourage all programs to conduct background checks on volunteers who will be working with children. If a program cannot feasibly conduct background checks on volunteers, we expect assurances that children will not be left unsupervised with volunteers.
Wildlife: We evaluate programs on a case-by-case basis by consulting with a wildlife biologist on best practices. We do not recommend opportunities that allow inappropriate interaction with domestic or wild animals. This includes but is not limited to:
Sites that allow any direct contact with large cats like lions or tigers
Sites that drug or sedate animals for the sole purpose of human interaction
Sites that are currently or ever have been associated with canned hunting
We encourage responsible travel throughout our advising process and have developed a pre-departure curriculum to further educate students about how to be considerate global citizens.
To this end, we have developed a set of standards that we use as our guide when counseling students on volunteering opportunities:
Vulnerable Peoples: We discourage volunteers without appropriate training to work with orphans or other vulnerable children.
Medical Work: We do not recommend programs that allow untrained volunteers to conduct medical procedures on patients. We do support programs that allow shadowing, non-invasive procedures (e.g. taking blood pressure) and public health projects provided they meet our other standards for recommendation.
Child Protection: We encourage all programs to conduct background checks on volunteers who will be working with children. If a program cannot feasibly conduct background checks on volunteers, we expect assurances that children will not be left unsupervised with volunteers.
Wildlife: We evaluate programs on a case-by-case basis by consulting with a wildlife biologist on best practices. We do not recommend opportunities that allow inappropriate interaction with domestic or wild animals. This includes but is not limited to:
Sites that allow any direct contact with large cats like lions or tigers
Sites that drug or sedate animals for the sole purpose of human interaction
Sites that are currently or ever have been associated with canned hunting
We encourage responsible travel throughout our advising process and have developed a pre-departure curriculum to further educate students about how to be considerate global citizens.
Program Highlights
- Personalized gap year planning to suit every budget, interest and personality
- Expertise: GYA Accredited Counselor with 16 + years of gap year counseling experience
- Efficiency: Julia saves families (especially parents) dozens of hours of research time
- Empowerment: Julia helps students take ownership of their own planning
- Julia's process maximizes value, saves time and allows students to thrive on their gap year and beyond
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