We have a few opportunities to offer tuition assistance for families with financial need (please contact us in advance to apply and receive the coupon code!).

We offer a discounted reparations rate of 40% off standard tuition to families identifying as Black and/or Indigenous to North America, regardless of financial need. You will find the reparations code in the session description on the registration site.

Please note that tuition assistance cannot be combined with the use of homeschool charter funds (but the reparations rate can).

If you are with a homeschool charter, you should be able to use their funds for all of our programs except Dragonfly Teen Naturalists.

We are currently vendors with the following charters:

• The Cottonwood School
• Heritage Peak
• South Sutter
• Sutter Peak
• Visions in Education
• Feather River
• Compass Charter Schools

If you are with a different charter school and would like to request that we become vendors with them, please get in touch!

In order to use charter funds, we require a $25 deposit when registering, which gets subtracted from the amount you request from your school. This deposit serves as the cancelation fee should you cancel.

Each class has a coupon code that you can use to check out in the registration system without paying tuition beyond the $25 deposit. If you use this code, we will expect to receive a purchase order or service voucher within 5 business days of your registration. (Fall season is the only exception, as most charters are not yet open for funding requests at the time registration opens. In this case we expect to receive your purchase order or service voucher before the start of the season.)

The coupon codes for using charter funds are as follows (they are also listed in the registration system under "view more details" for each class option):

Homeschool program: HSCFDAY

After-school program: HSCFPM

Parent/Child program: HSCFPC

Using charter funds for Little Coyotes Forest Kinder is a more complicated matter, so please get in touch with us if you want to do this!

Once you have registered with the coupon code and paid the $25 deposit, just subtract $25 from the total tuition and request that from your charter school. If you are receiving a reparations-based rate, make sure to factor that in as well.

If your plans change and you need to cancel, full refunds, minus a $25 per registrant cancelation fee, will be issued until one week before the season begins (i.e. when the season begins on a Monday, the last day to get a refund will be the Sunday of the week prior, or 8 days before the start of the season). We cannot guarantee refunds after that date.

For our summer program, we have 5-6 kids per Forest Mentor.

You will receive a full Parent Guide before the start of the program, which will include more detailed information, but generally, your child will need to bring a backpack that they can easily carry with water, a sack lunch and snack, and appropriate clothing for the weather. In the summer there is often opportunities for water play, so a change of clothes and/or swimwear is helpful. We provide life jackets, which will be worn by kids at all times in the water.