This program utilizes qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and education…

This program utilizes qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and education projects on department of the interior lands through authorized national park service programs. This project will support up to five interns to provide support to the colonial national historical park (NHP) in the divisions of resource stewardship science, and visitor experience community engagement. The interns will participate in resource projects including those related to public outreach, natural and cultural resource management, historic preservation, as well as climate change mitigation, while helping to develop young adults into leaders with career interests in the stewardship of national parks. This project also seeks to further the relationship between colonial NHP and regional historically black colleges and universities (HBCU)S to provide young adults with opportunities for developing cultural and natural resource stewardship skills while caring for historic structures and natural and cultural landscapes. Beneficiaries include private non-profit institutions and organizations public and private non-profit academic institutions state and local government agencies quasi-public non-profit institutions and organizations that support youth and young adult career training and development, and education in the areas of natural and or cultural resource conservation and management. Individuals families students and the general public will receive a benefit from the development and execution of these programs and projects.