Youth In Action
Youth In Action Meets Local Artists
Youth In Action celebrated our last month of 2009 with meeting artists and working with different media.
In Buena Vista, Evelyn Baker, owner of The Trailhead and an accomplished stained glass artist joined us at the pre-school and taught the kids how to make a tile mosaic. The first week everyone designed a trivet with mini [...]
YOUTH IN ACTION MEETS LOCAL CHEFS
This month in Youth In Action, we met people in the food industry in Buena Vista and Salida and got a little taste ourselves of how to be cooks. Our book of the month was Eric Rohmann’s A Kitten Tale - a book that reminded us the value of taking advantage of new opportunities and the [...]
Youth In Action Kids Look Forward to Meeting Their Match!
Youth In Action (YIA), a branch program of Chaffee County Mentors, enrolls middle school youth and pre-school children each September to participate in cross-age peer mentoring. Meeting weekly after-school, Youth In Action focuses on supporting the social-emotional and literacy development of the pre-schoolers while also providing a unique opportunity for middle-school aged youth to take [...]
Youth In Action Celebrates the Year!
Youth In Action, middle school youth mentoring pre-school children, culminated last week with a potluck dinner celebration for youth and their families. Youth In Action is held Mondays after school in Buena Vista and Wednesdays after school in Salida and includes reading, crafts, field trips, and guest speakers. This year, our theme was “Around the [...]
African Dance at Youth In Action
In March, Youth In Action learned a story from West Africa called, “The Blind Man and the Hunter.” To celebrate West Africa, Jane Whitmer and Colleen Kunkel (dancer and drummer with River Tribe) joined us to teach us the essence of rhythms and movements from that region. Although hesitant at first, pre-schoolers and middle schoolers [...]