Youth & Family Services
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
OUT-OF-SCHOOL YOUTH & FAMILY PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
CULTURAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT
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Families, schools, and communities all need to work together to create an environment that facilitates healthy development of children and adolescents.
Adult Support: School staff can dedicate their time, interest, attention, and emotional support to students.
Belonging to a Positive Peer Group: A stable network of peers can improve student perceptions of school.
Commitment to Education: Believing that school is important to their future, and perceiving that the adults in school are invested in their education, can get students engaged in their own learning and involved in school activities.
School Environment: The physical environment and psychosocial climate can set the stage for positive student perceptions of school.
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Our Goals
To increase high school GRADUATION and choice readiness through our “after-school” tutoring program
To prevent and REDUCE SCHOOL DROPOUT RATES and truancy through our “out-of-school” programs focused on recreation, wellness, and life skills and cultural identity development.
To increase mental, social, emotional, and CULTURAL LEARNING and the opportunity to develop POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS with our mentors and support staff for our youth through our “out-of-school” programs focused on recreation, wellness, and life skills and cultural identity development.
To increase a sense of BELONGING and CULTURAL CONNECTIONS through multitiered care coordination of resources and services offered to the youth and families through our “out-of-school family wellness, parenting and cultural programs.
NATIVE, Inc.’s GPIs YFEC strives to IMPROVE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT OUTCOMES through the following strategies:
To INCREASE high school GRADUATION and choice READINESS through our tutoring, college and career readiness programs held during “afterschool” programs
NATIVE, Inc.’s GPIs YFEC strives to IMPROVE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT OUTCOMES through the following strategies:
GPIs YFEC Annual Membership Application
The Annual Membership Application must be renewed annually for the September 1 through August 31 period. Submit your annual membership application to BisEvents@ndnadc.org for Bismarck region and to FargoEvents@ndnadc.org for Fargo region.
The Great Plains Indians Youth and Family Engagement Center (GPIs YFEC) is funded by the North Dakota State Legislature and partially funded by the Native American Development Center. The programs held through this engagement center serve Native American youth and families and individuals living in the Bismarck and Fargo urban areas at NATIVE, Inc. site locations.
We provide a community space for Native Americans to engage in and access cultural programming to ensure their sense of belonging within mainstream communities. A culturally relevant environment with mentors and role models fosters a culture of resiliency and perseverance necessary for the development of self-efficacy amongst a population facing similar societal struggles. Culture is a protective factor for living a healthy lifestyle, preventing suicide, for preventing or alleviating anti-social and unruly behaviors, for behavioral health prevention and recovery leading to improved educational and health outcomes.
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Our Mission
For the Great Plains Indians Youth and Family Engagement Center is to intervene and prevent racial disparities amongst Native American youth and their families involved or at-risk of being involved with the justice system through college and career readiness educational opportunities, culturally relevant parenting curriculums, and life skills and cultural identity development.