Native and Rural Youth

In this five-part series, we spoke with staff and young people living and working in programs that have received grants from the Family and Youth Services Bureau. Some are Tribal organizations; others are non-tribal entities that serve a large number of Native youth. Here’s what Tilllie Black Bear, executive director of White Buffalo Calf Woman Society on the Rosewood Indian Sioux...
In this five-part series, we spoke with staff and young people living and working in programs that have received grants from the Family and Youth Services Bureau. Some are Tribal organizations; others are non-tribal entities that serve a large number of Native youth. Here’s what Danny, a 19-year-old resident of Ain Dah Yung Transitional Living Program, in St. Paul, MN, had to say:
In this five-part series, we spoke with staff and young people living and working in programs that have received grants from the Family and Youth Services Bureau. Some are Tribal organizations; others are non-tribal entities that serve a large number of Native youth. Here’s what Betty Frog, a resident assistant at the Cherokee Nation Youth Shelter in Tahlequah, OK, had to say about what her...
In this five-part series, we spoke with staff and young people living and working in programs that have received grants from the Family and Youth Services Bureau. Some are Tribal organizations; others are non-tribal entities that serve a large number of Native youth. Here’s what Sarah Finnell, a street outreach worker for Fairbanks Counseling & Adoption in Fairbanks, AL, had to say:
NCFY speaks to two Native American young people to get their perspectives on the importance, and challenges, of Native youth leadership. Time: 7:43 | Size: 7 MB | Transcript
Here’s how Sara London, then in high school, knew the staff of Native Lens trusted her: They handed her a $5,000 video camera. Though London had used computers and a “little digital camera” before participating in Native Lens, a filmmaking program for Native American youth in Washington state, “I had never used such a high-tech camera,” she says. “It made us...
Youth master planning isn’t just for cities and towns. It can work in rural places, too.  But rural planners must take into account the unique challenges and opportunities that go along with life in the country.
The Family and Youth Services Bureau recently awarded grants to three States – Colorado, Iowa, and Minnesota – to carry out demonstration projects helping young people in rural areas (including Tribal lands and other rural Native communities) who are approaching young adulthood and independence but have few or no connections to a supportive family or community resources.
As Alaska's statewide independent living coordinator, Jefty Prather has a lot of ground to cover. For the Office of Children's Services (OCS), Prather and his four regional independent living specialists work to safeguard the futures of kids aging out of the foster care system in a State more than twice the size of Texas, but with a total population of just 670,000-less than San Francisco.
One FYSB grantee is working to make home ownership appealing to rural youth. In many rural areas it is sometimes cheaper to buy a home than to rent an apartment. Stepping Stones, a transitional living program for pregnant and parenting teens in Houlton, Maine, educates youth about the home-buying process.
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