This project will support and stimulate work education and training opportunities for youth and young adults through participation in various cultural landscape repairs as well as other maintenance…

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.931 - Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities) will provide $460,848.80 to the Farmworkers Institute of Education and Leadership Development, Inc. to support work education and training opportunities for youth and young adults through cultural landscape repairs and maintenance tasks at Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in California. The project will focus on revitalizing deteriorated areas of the site by maintaining, repairing, and reconstructing the landscape and visitor center, helping to preserve this historic resource. The award period runs from August 15, 2024 to August 24, 2025, and the project will involve collaboration between the National Park Service and the Farmworkers Institute to improve cultural resources at the monument.

This project will support and stimulate work education and training opportunities for youth and young adults through participation in various cultural landscape repairs as well as other maintenance tasks. Field and NPS will collaborate to improve cultural resources by maintaining repairing and reconstructing the landscape and visitor center at caeser E. Chavez national monument. This project will revitalize areas within the site that have deteriorated over time due to weather events animal damage and everyday use. The project will begin a reversal of this deterioration and provide for the longterm preservation of this historic resource.