Seattle Youth Garden Works is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and employing homeless and underserved youth in a farm to market organic garden. We serve youth ages 14-21. Through our program we seek to assist the youth we serve in their pursuit of housing, healthcare, education, permanent employment, and community.
Time Commitment: Approx. 16 hours/week from June 23-August 22, 2008
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Goal: To create a safe, stable, and educational environment for homeless, street-involved, and underserved youth in an outdoor classroom setting and while on field trips.
Responsibilities: The youth education intern assists the SYEP instructor in educating the youth about sustainable agriculture, food justice, geography, and ecology in an outdoor classroom setting for two days a week. Also, the youth education intern aids the youth to succeed in obtaining school credit during the program. The youth education intern will assist in executing the daily curriculum, while acting as a positive role model for the youth. It is important that the youth education intern exhibits appropriate work behavior (punctuality, on-task, engages with youth). On Thursdays the intern will attend field trips with the class, offering mentoring support. Finally, the youth education intern assists in planning the daily schedule, while helping with any needs that might arise during the program.
Benefits: Make a difference in the life of a young person in the community, curriculum development skills, classroom experience, gain an understanding of youth psychology, networking resources, non-profit experience, be a community leader, travel and explore.
Great for teachers or education majors.
This is an unpaid internship.
Please contact Josh Hall at jhall@thechurchcouncil.org or 206-632-0352 x 15
