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UPS (Blackfoot Tribe), Gene Dooley - CEO and President, YMCA of Greater Kansas City for 21 years, Debbie Brinkoetter - Public Relations Director for Carondelet Health and North Kansas City Hospital for 20 years, Mariddie Craig - Two-time Tribal Council- woman with the White Mountain Apache Tribe |
Nation Building for Native Youth (NBNY) is a life-changing empowerment program for Native youth grades 10 - 12 and their adult advisors. NBNY programs represent 25 tribes from Northern Plains, Great Lakes, Southeast, Southern Plains, New Mexico and Arizona.
Program Overview
Goals & Outcomes
Why BNY Stands Out
Participants
Eligibility Requirements & Who Should Attend
2010 Cost and Location
About the Nick Lowery Youth Foundation (NLYF)
Program Overview
Nation Building for Native Youth (NBNY) is a life-changing youth empowerment program for up to 36 Native Youth ages 15-19 and adult advisors. Funded by the UPS Foundation and others, it combines historically accurate and culturally relevant content with leadership, peer mentoring and experiential learning. It integrates powerful and proven 21st century educational strategies associated with building positive, confident, responsible and empowered youth with Harvard University's Nation Building framework and cutting-edge leadership, communications, life skills, and service learning.
NBNY uses
a variety of strategies to connect
with all learning styles .
- Tribal Sovereignty & Nation Building
- Search Institute′s 40 Developmental Assets
- Experiential trust and team-building exercises
- DiSC® Behavioral Styles Inventory
- Leadership Theory & Skills
- Public speaking and presentations
- Planning and decision-making exercises
- Capstone Exercise - Mock Tribal Council
- Motivational Speakers
- Service Learning
- On-going contact and mentoring
Goals & Outcomes
NBNY aims to enable Native youth to lead positive, successful lives and ultimately serve and lead their communities. Participating youth gain increased self-awareness and self-confidence, exposure to cultural and social competencies. Youth also learn about: 1) the inner workings of tribal governments, 2) effective ways to operate in the greater society while remaining consistent with their culture, and 3) ways to mobilize community resources to make a difference.
NBNY regularly receives a high 9.5+ out of ten from adult advisors and youth. It distinguishes itself from other Native youth programs as follows:
- Small size, high ratio of mentors to students
- More intense and intentional than most youth conferences
- High quality resource materials that can be used in the community
- Focus on leadership for nation building and community development
- Special instruction, mentoring and materials for adult advisors
- Carefully blended multi-faceted
curriculum designed and presented by
professional team* who are leaders
in their fields
- Participants receive continual
feedback and can sense their
progress and growth
What Past Participants Have Said About NBNY
- I learned I need to be ready for any opportunity.
- NBNY showed me I can make a difference.
- It made me want to be more involved and active in my community.
- The Institute helped me understand specific jobs/skills my tribe needs help with.
- NBNY will help me follow the issues of our tribe and maybe in the future, I will run for the Tribal Council.
- I've gone to a lot of leadership programs before. . .this one was different. . .it was life changing. . .I'm so glad I came.
- It was awesome!
Eligibility Requirements & Who Should Attend
Up to 36 Native youth and 6-10 adult youth workers/teachers/advisors from tribes throughout the nation are eligible to attend. Eligible youths need not be A students, BUT they should be motivated and demonstrate leadership qualities, positive character traits and a desire to make a difference in the lives of others. In addition, participants must:
- Provide registration fee of $500 and all travel and travel-related costs;
- Be accompanied by an adult chaperone/advisor who also must pay travel-related costs and be available throughout the
Institute;
- Submit an application and permission forms.
2010 Program - Cost & Location
Click HERE to see our 2010 ANNOUNCEMENT (PDF)
The 2010 NBNY Summer Training Institute was held in Scottsdale, Arizona on June 21 at the Millennium Suites Hotel at McCormick Ranch, Scottsdale, Arizona - 7401 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85253. It ended after the awards banquet luncheon on June 25, at 2:00 PM.
About the Nick Lowery Youth Foundation (NLYF)
NLYF is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged children by providing and leveraging resources to help them help themselves. In the past eight years the Foundation's primary focus has been Native American youth and communities. The Foundation is able to mobilize exceptional teams of people including American Indian political leaders, educators, role models, youth leaders and youth workers to deliver programs like Nation Building for Native Youth (NBNY) and its new program
NEXT.
For
More information contact:
Nick Lowery at 1-480-556-6533,
OR
Lynn Kickingbird at
1-888-340-5661 or
lynn@kickingbirdassociastes.com