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Current Programs
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Youth Allies
for Sustainability
LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
<Click Here to download Brochure>
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download Application>
WHAT IS YOUTH ALLIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY?
The Youth Allies program is a forum where young people
from various cultures can work together to address community
needs.
The Youth
Allies program builds cultural and leadership skills among high
school students so they can take leadership roles in the greater
community. Students will have the opportunity to act as leaders
in their communities by serving on non-profit Boards, City
Commissions, educational committees, and/or leading a community
project of their own design while receiving on-going mentoring
and training.
High school students will build their
leadership capacity through experience with and trainings in the
environment, colonization, diversity, and social justice. This
program seeks to provide future leaders with the skills to
address the real causes of issues and find actions they can take
towards solutions.
Youth Allies will also provide high school
students the opportunity to meet and socialize with like-minded
individuals from schools throughout Santa Fe and New Mexico as
well as network with other teens involved in a national and
international youth movement.
Youth
Allies is a collaborative program of the non-profit
organizations Earth Care International, the Santa Fe Mountain
Center’s Native American Emergence Program, and other local
non-profit youth organizations.
WHO
SHOULD SIGN UP FOR THIS PROGRAM?
Youth
Allies is looking for self-motivated, committed young people,
ages 13-20, interested in creating change and taking a
leadership role in their community.
WHAT DOES THE PROGRAM
INVOLVE?
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A
three-day Leadership Camp for 35 participants kicks off the
year on November
10-12, 2006 at Synergia Ranch outside of Santa Fe.
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Four day-long weekend
training sessions, one per month, on diversity/colonization,
sustainability, youth organizing, and leadership follow the
camp.
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A three-day Advanced
Leadership Camp will take place in April of 2007.
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Participants will then be
placed in leadership roles in the community or pursue a
community project of their own interest.
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All events are free for
participants!
CAN
I GET SCHOOL CREDIT FOR THIS PROGRAM?
Students
can receive up to 3 college credits through the Santa Fe
Community College for FREE! AND this
program satisfies high school graduation requirements for
service-learning.
INTERESTED?
To apply for this program
download the application and send it to Earth Care via email at
YouthAllies@earthcare.org,
Fax: 983-2622, or drop it off Attn: Bianca, at One World Coffee
and Trade, 1810 Second Street, Santa Fe.
Click Here to download the
Youth Allies Brochure
Click Here to download the
Youth Allies Application
For more
information call
Bianca Sopoci-Belknap, Youth Allies Coordinator, at 699-1025, or email
her at
Bianca@earthcare.org
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Sustainability
Courses: High School
WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY
EDUCATION?
SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
connects issues of the environment, social justice, equitable
economics, and culture to understand and find solutions to
today's complex global and local issues.
Earth Care offers innovative and
inspiring educators and courses on sustainability for secondary
schools. Our courses engage high school students in ways that
get them excited about learning and school.
OUR EDUCATORS
hold a Bachelor’s, while most have Master’s degree and are
either certified teachers in New Mexico or are currently in the
certification program.
OUR PEDAGOGY
is student-focused with a hands-on and experiential learning
approach. Our students “learn-by-doing” and participate in
creative change projects in their schools and community. Our
pedagogy encourages students to become reflective learners, an
important skill for higher thinking and doing.
STANDARDS BASED COURSES…
Our courses are aligned to many of the New Mexico State
Standards and can be offered as elective courses in science and
social studies to reinforce learning in the core areas.
Earth Care International can work with your
high school to develop sustainability education courses and
school or community based service learning projects that include
standards in:
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History
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English
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Economics
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Environmental Science
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Cultural Studies
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Health
For more information on bringing
Sustainability Education to your high school contact
Christina Selby via email at
christina@earthcare.org.
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One World Coffee and Trade
  
WHAT IS ONE WORLD COFFEE AND TRADE?
One
World Coffee and Trade, a program of the non-profit organization
Earth Care International, is a youth-led coffee house.
It serves youth and the community in various ways: offering high
school or college credit for the Business & Entrepreneurship
training program, employment opportunities for youth, a
gathering place for teens, a gathering place for the
neighborhood and community at large.
WHAT IS THE BUSINESS AND
ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING?
High school students have the opportunity
to learn about business through hands-on experience working and
volunteering at One World Coffee and Trade, a teen-run coffee
shop. Over the course of a full year, students gain experience
in the work place while learning the mindset of an entrepreneur
and gaining skills in customer service, marketing & promotions,
accounting, business plans, community service, sustainability,
and leadership.
Additionally, students explore cutting edge
business ideas which will allow them to stand out and excel in
today’s competitive business world such as Sustainability,
Triple Bottom Line (People, Planet, & Profit), Zero Waste, and
Closed-Loop businesses.
Through four stages of training and
leadership, students will have the opportunity to move from
working on the floor as a cashier to becoming assistant manager
of the store to creating their own entrepreneurial venture.
WHAT IS ONE WORLD COFFEE AND TRADE?
One World Coffee and Trade is a coffee
house started in 2001 by a group of 30 teens from 5 local high
schools and is teen-run and operated with the help of many
committed adult mentors. One World hosts a teen art space, music
venue, & speaker events.
WHO
SHOULD SIGN UP FOR THIS PROGRAM?
One World
is looking for self-motivated, committed young people interested
in making a difference in their community while learning about
business for the 21st century and gaining real world
experience in the workplace. Employment opportunities are also
available at One World.
HOW
MUCH TIME DO I NEED TO COMMIT TO THIS PROGRAM?
The One
World program requires a time commitment of approximately 5
hours per week, including most Sunday afternoons.
HOW CAN
I GET HIGH SCHOOL and/or COLLEGE CREDIT FOR THIS PROGRAM?
Students
can receive up to 3 college credits through the Santa Fe
Community College for FREE! AND this program satisfies high
school graduation requirements for service-learning.
What teens have to say
about One World after being open for six months:
“The coffee shop is my
home. I love it here and I speak for a lot of teenagers in
saying it gives me a healthy environment to be safe and stay out
of trouble. It fulfills me and gives me, a confused teenager
trying to figure out how I fit into the world, a place to help
the environment and make it better.”
“I’ve learned, as with almost every Earth
Care project, that anything is possible!”
“Just having a place to go
as a teenager, where I can be with my peers without being
shunned or harassed, is incredibly wonderful. There’s nowhere
else like that.”
“I went through a lot of hard times and One
World has been so, so great for me (a life savor, if you will).
Such a friendly and clean environment.”
“One World provides a
strong foundation to organize my life around.”
INTERESTED?
Call
Rachel Balkcom at 699-2858 or 983-0407, or email
Rachel@earthcare.org
Visit One World's website at
www.oneworldcoffeeandtrade.org
For more information email Rachel@earthcare.org
For Photos
CLICK HERE!
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