Freedom School started on June 17th! This 6 week program is at Seward Montessori and is for students grades 1-12. Freedom School is a literacy based program using culturally relevant literature for the first half of the day and the cultural activities and lessons in the afternoon. The youth take field trips every Friday and we participate in National Youth Action Day.
Our family night was May 29th in the Dakota lodge. We had a BBQ, a selfie station, pinata, and outdoor games. We also had the Textiles Center come and lead a weaving project. Ida Downwind was there and started us off in prayer.
YLDP received a grant called HYPE which stands for Helping Youth Provide Empowerment. They were tasked with creating a flyer and a media project on the prevention of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs. They decided to focus on alcohol and as a group to make an activity booklet that has statistics on effects of alcohol, a word search and crossword puzzle using terms of addiction, abuse and prevention and also a coloring page. Our youth created all the art work and the information it contains. For the media project they wrote a short skit and were able to get it recorded through collaboration with Migizi. They have yet to see the video, but are really looking forward to the final result. Our youth worked really hard on this project and we can't wait to share it with the community!
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as we will post the video that the youth created as soon as it's available! We will also try to post it in the next newsletter.
