Our mission is to promote resilience among Zuni youth, so they will grow into strong and healthy adults who are connected with Zuni traditions.
We pursue our mission by providing Zuni youth with positive role models, enriching programs, and nurturing spaces that build on the strengths of their community.
Your donation increases the access Zuni youth have to enriching programs, healthy spaces, and encouraging mentors.
Invested into the Zuni community since 2009, with a focus on helping Zuni youth lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
Of our youth report improved health as a result of participating in our programs.
Youth served annually, across 10 distinct ZYEP programs. 80% of ZYEP youth participate in more than one ZYEP program per year.
Of our youth participant’s parents report that participation improved their child’s overall health.
*data derived from post-program surveys conducted with Zuni youth and Zuni families
Thirty-five Shiwi Ts’ana Elementary School students are spending three afternoons each week cooking, creating art, practicing language and learning about their community through ZYEP's Rooted in Healthy Traditions after-school program. Now in its fifth and final year at Shiwi Ts’ana, the program runs Sept. 8 through Oct. 29 for students in third through sixth grades. Made possible with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, RHT brings together physical activity, food sovereignty, art, homework help and knowledge sharing, with an emphasis on relationships among youth, young-adult mentors, ZYEP staff and community knowledge keepers. Demand has been particularly strong among fifth- and sixth-graders this fall. Twenty-one children in the upper two grades registered, prompting ZYEP to divide them into two groups!Read more here: www.zyep.org/zuni-youth-enrichment-project-marks-fifth-and-final-year-of-rooted-in-healthy-tradit...
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