Native and Rural Youth

The Administration for Native Americans within the Administration for Children and Families announces the availability of funds for new community-based projects under the Social and Economic Development Strategies, or SEDS, program. This year, SEDS is focused on strengthening children, families, and communities through community-based organizations, Tribes and Village governments. View the...
Here are some ways to pay tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans during Native American Heritage Month this November:
The Office of Rural Health Policy seeks to fund projects that use evidence-based approaches to promote health and improve health care services in rural areas. Learn more and download the request for proposals.
In its latest podcast, Shared Experiences Help Rural Youth Leaders Connect, NCFY speaks to three youth leaders in rural communities about how they encourage young people to enter transitional living services. Listen to the podcast.
A trio of free toolkits from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse can help youth workers jump-start – and make the most of – their community-service-learning programs:
Want to get a head start on your proposals by knowing about federal funding opportunities before they're announced? The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services maintains a Grants Forecast, a database of funding opportunities that are expected to be announced in the upcoming months. You can search for programs of interest (such as the Basic Center and Street Outreach Programs) to get...
Ice breakers ease new members into a group and help develop cohesion, whether among youth or staff. In an updated Youth Development Network tool, YDN shares more than twenty activities that break the ice. The games represent a wide variety of participation and contact levels, which acommodate the varying levels of comfort felt within programs and even from group to group. With new groups, start...
In the Voices From the Field podcast for December, NCFY talks to Terry Cross, executive director of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, and progenitor of the "relational worldview" of Native youth work. "The relational worldview is depicted in a four quadrant circle - mind, body, spirit and context," Cross says. "The more that those four quadrants can come into...
Terry Cross, executive director of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, explains his innovative work with the "Relational Worldview" of youth care. For more information, go to NICWA's Relational Worldview introductory page.
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