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 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service (NPS) under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $147,750.99 to Northwest Youth Corps (NYC) to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, and volunteer service projects on NPS lands at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park.

The award will support NYC in recruiting and engaging youth from historically underserved and discriminated communities, including deaf/hard of hearing, LGBTQ, and American Indian individuals, to form specialized crews that will perform a variety of natural resource stewardship work at the park. These crews will receive educational opportunities, mentorship, and guidance from the park during their conservation and maintenance activities, which may include invasive species removal, habitat restoration, trail work, and cultural resource preservation. The award period runs from August 2024 through September 2027.

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. Northwest youth corps will recruit youth from historically underserved and or discriminated communities such as deaf hard of hearing, lgbtq , and american indian students to create special single identity crews to perform a variety of natural resources stewardship work at lewis and clark national historical park (lewi). Lewi will provide educational opportunities, mentorship, and guidance to these crews while at the park. 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.