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UPS (Blackfoot Tribe), Gene Dooley - CEO and President, YMCA of Greater Kansas City for 21 years, Debbie Brinkoetter - Public Relations Director for Carondelet Health and North Kansas City Hospital for 20 years, Mariddie Craig - Two-time Tribal Council- woman with the White Mountain Apache Tribe |
Nation Building for Native Youth (NBNY) is a life-changing empowerment program for Native youth grades 10 - 12 and their adult advisors. NBNY programs represent 25 tribes from Northern Plains, Great Lakes, Southeast, Southern Plains, New Mexico and Arizona.
Program Overview
Goals & Outcomes
NBNY Stands Out
Participants
2009 Programs
Costs & Travel
Application (Youth)
Application (Adult)
Nation Building for Native Youth (NBNY) Summer Institutes are life-changing empowerment programs for Native youth grades 10 - 12 and their adult advisors. They consists of a best-practices framework that is spiritually and culturally relevant, NBNY participants are given permission to step into a new place and realize that they are the future of Indian Country!
NBNY uses
a variety of strategies to connect
with all learning styles .
- Hands-on team building and
problem-solving
- Peer mentoring
- Inspirational speakers
(tribal elected leaders and staff,
athletes)
- Challenge exercises
- Service learning projects
- Group projects and
presentations dealing with
current-day tribal issues
- Continual reflection,
feedback and affirmation
- Daily reflection activities
- Awards & celebration
Subject matter content dealing with
tribal government and leadership are
carefully interwoven to achieve
results.
- Harvard Model for Nation
Building + Youth for Tribal
Government curricula
- Carefully crafted leadership
messages and skills practice
(individual, group, community)
- The Search Institutes 40
Developmental Assets™ and the DiSC™ Behavioral Styles Inventory
- Motivational stories from athletes
and leaders related to persistence,
overcoming, performance, and serving
and leading others.
Goals & Outcomes
The long-term goals of the program
are to enable Native youth to lead
positive, successful lives and
ultimately serve and lead their
communities. Youth learn about:
- The inner workings of tribal
governments
- Effective ways to operate in
the greater society while remaining
true to their culture
- Ways to mobilize community
resources to make a difference.
As a result of this program, Native youth return home emboldened to solve critical community problems and needs. They are able to put important new skills to work to change their own lives while improving the lives of others.
NBNY
develops & promotes:
- Self-awareness & personal
confidence & empowerment
- Understanding of others
(team empowerment)
- Coping skills
- The crystallization of
personal goals, including
educational & vocational
- Future tribal/community
leaders
It
distinguishes itself from other
Native youth programs as follows:
- Small size, high ratio of
mentors to students
- Longer, more intense and
intentional than most youth
conferences
- High quality resource
materials that can be used in the
community
- Focus on leadership for
nation building and community
development
- High quality, carefully
blended multi-faceted curriculum
designed and presented by
professional team who are leaders in
their
fields.
- Participants receive
continual feedback and can sense
their progress and growth.
An analysis of the Pre and post 2008 Developmental Assets Profiles™ shows very significant and positive change. In an open-ended question about personal goals at the 2008 Institute, 70% of NBNY youth commented that they now understand the importance of education. 67% say they are committed to pursuing higher education.
Youth
NBNY Institutes creates a
virtual community. Both youth
who are "natural" leaders and
those with "potential" work in
teams or "clans." The focus is
on increased self-awareness and
working effectively in groups
and community.
Up to
30 Native Eligible youths must:
1) Be citizens of an
American Indian nation;
2) Be in high school or
just graduated.
3) Be accompanied by an
adult advisor who also must be
available throughout the
Institute;
4) Submit an application
and related forms.
5) Youth need not be "A"
students, BUT they should have
demonstrated leadership
qualities, positive character
traits and a desire to make a
difference in the lives of
others.
Adults
Adult participants are
teachers and employees or
volunteers of youth
organizations and/or programs.
They learn along side the youth
and in separate activities. They
must be available to work with
the youth during scheduled
activities and to mentor youth
in the evenings through
structured reflection exercises.
The ideal adult candidate works
regularly with youth and is
committed to improving his or
her effectiveness and knowledge
about tribal government,
leadership, team building,
engaging youth, and evaluating
youth programs. Generally 1
adult accompanies 3-4 students.
The 2009 NBNY Summer Leadership Institute is taking place in Scottsdale, Arizona July 9 - 12 at the Millennium Suites Hotel at McCormick Ranch, Scottsdale, Arizona - 7401 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85253. It will end after the awards banquet luncheon on July 12, at 2:00 PM.
The Nick Lowery Youth Foundation covers $1000 of the $1250 cost per student.
and we ask that $250 be covered
by the tribe in the spirit of
shared roles in empowering our
youth.
This includes 4 days of
training, hotel and meals. In
addition, each person and/or
group is responsible for
roundtrip travel.
Materials
Each participant receives:
- Youth for Tribal Government
Student texts
- NBNY youth and leader manuals
- Backpacks & T-shirts
Application (Youth) - Click the MS Word icon below to apply.
Application (Adult) - Click the MS Word icon below to apply.
For
More information contact:
Nick Lowery at 1-480-556-6533,
OR
Lynn Kickingbird at
1-888-340-5661 or
lynn@kickingbirdassociastes.com