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Summer Youth Program : Leadership & Learning Expansion
Offered by: Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA)
Claimed
Last updated:
September, 2021
This program is offered online and in person.
Address
6040 35th Ave SW
Seattle, WA 98126
Who It's For
AGE
5 — 18
Program Overview
Our Summer Youth Program provides youth an assortment of hybrid, activities that include art classes of varying disciplines, recreational experiences, culinary arts/nutrition, and leadership events. Interns have the opportunity to help coordinate and lead activities, which are safely orchestrated by community leaders hired by DNDA and also year-round DNDA staff.
Our program will include the following activities:
• Street Mural—youth explore the power of visual symbolism and its capacity to illustrate communities and shape urban landscapes. With the guidance of Teaching Artists, youth will create and install a neighborhood mural as part of a summer-long art project designed to engage their talents as community leaders, visionaries, and creative artists.
• Culinary Arts – Cooking classes are designed for youth to practice basic cooking skills with quality ingredients and professional instruction. Youth learn about nutrition and healthy eating, and the skills that participants learn in class allow them to practice cooking new, tasty dishes with their families at home. DNDA coordinators transport cooking kits every week and post instructional videos on YouTube featuring DNDA partner chef Mulu Abate.
• Speaking Events—DNDA coordinators will work with youth to invite 3 speakers to the Summer Youth Program whom participating youth are interested in listening to and learning from.
• Leadership Workshop—Over the course of a three-day workshop, young girls will explore the characteristics of good leadership, gain insight into creating impactful change, and learn confidence, self-love, and how to be a strong woman.
Youth will strengthen existing or develop new relationships to figures and spaces ; will more readily associate positive qualities or characteristics to the neighborhood; youth will feel like they can be (or showcase that they are) a positive influence in their community.
As a result of program participation, youth feel they have a better understanding of an important political or social matters. In this case, it could be how to perform outreach, understand how groups organize programs and what it takes to sustain them.
Our program will include the following activities:
• Street Mural—youth explore the power of visual symbolism and its capacity to illustrate communities and shape urban landscapes. With the guidance of Teaching Artists, youth will create and install a neighborhood mural as part of a summer-long art project designed to engage their talents as community leaders, visionaries, and creative artists.
• Culinary Arts – Cooking classes are designed for youth to practice basic cooking skills with quality ingredients and professional instruction. Youth learn about nutrition and healthy eating, and the skills that participants learn in class allow them to practice cooking new, tasty dishes with their families at home. DNDA coordinators transport cooking kits every week and post instructional videos on YouTube featuring DNDA partner chef Mulu Abate.
• Speaking Events—DNDA coordinators will work with youth to invite 3 speakers to the Summer Youth Program whom participating youth are interested in listening to and learning from.
• Leadership Workshop—Over the course of a three-day workshop, young girls will explore the characteristics of good leadership, gain insight into creating impactful change, and learn confidence, self-love, and how to be a strong woman.
Youth will strengthen existing or develop new relationships to figures and spaces ; will more readily associate positive qualities or characteristics to the neighborhood; youth will feel like they can be (or showcase that they are) a positive influence in their community.
As a result of program participation, youth feel they have a better understanding of an important political or social matters. In this case, it could be how to perform outreach, understand how groups organize programs and what it takes to sustain them.
Registration Details
COST & PAYMENT
$1
