Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc

Programs: Children and youth-cryp offers a variety of interesting, innovative educational and recreational youth programs and services for the young people of the cheyenne river reservation. The following programs and services will be broken down into programs for children ages 4-12 years and programs for teenagers 13-18 years. Programs for youth 4-12: the main youth center is a drop-in youth facility that operates on average six days per week, from 4 p. M. To 8 p. M. During the school year and from 1 p. M. To 8 p. M. During the summer. It was open for 317 days with 7,731 youth contacts. On average cryp has about 24 youths attending daily. This facility is where cryp most often makes their first contact with cheyenne river's youth. For this reason, cryp designed the main's programs to develop interests and lay the ground work of basic skills which can be bult upon later when the child transitions into the teen center.

cryp created a family services program in 2001 as a way to manage the families cryp serves on cheyenne river and bring organization to their distribution resources donated to the organization. Enrollment in the program, guarantees the families access to bulk distributions that include hygiene products, winter clothing and coats, shoes, household goods (blankets, laundry detergent), clothing, school supplies, food distributions, emergency heat assistance, minor home repair, and other special prog

agriculture programs-the wiyan toka win (translated from lakota to english is leading lady) 2 acre organic garden begins in the spring and runs through late fall. Young people are engaged in every step of the growing process-preparation, planting, maintenance and harvesting the produce. Garden club is offered every week, for 4-12 year old children, during the growing season and involves direct work in the garden, followed by guided journaling with the help of a volunteer. Journaling helps partic

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