Engaging Youth, Serving Community Grant

May 2010

In partnership with the 4-H program the group will be participating in a new EYSC (Engaging Youth, Serving Community) to continue their work, giving the group additional training, funding and resources to continue their work in youth violence for the next 1 to 3 years. Included in this will be a Girls Self Defense and Date Rape Course (in Partnership with Sunnyside Police Department), Girls Sexual Assault Training (in partnership with the Grant County Domestic Violence), and Youth anti-Bullying and Gang prevention training (in partnership with Grant County Sheriff’s Office and Mattawa Police Department). Initial training will begin on a three (May 21 -23) retreat to be held at Silverlake Camp near Medical Lake. The Retreat will cover the following subjects to prepare the 12 students and 4 adults who will be attending the retreat, or the upcoming year.
• Youth Adult Partnerships
• Diversity/Inclusion
• Meeting Facilitation
• Issue Discovery
• Framing & Community Capitals
• Convening
• Action Planning
• Forum Planning
• Practice Forums
• Evaluation

Community Survey

Students assisted the North Columbia Community Action Council in distributing and acquiring the 2009 Community Survey. The survey a pamphlet 15 pages long consisting of 45 quetions gathering knowledge of community members experience, participation, invovlement of thier community and people's ideas of how to improve poverty in their region. Students acted as interpretors for those who spoke and/or read only in Spanish. The students handed out 250 surveys in the first round. In return North Columbia Community Action Council sponsored 14 studetns to attend the 4-H Summer teen Connference, held in Pullman.