OpportunityTitle: Teaching Traditional Building/Landscape Skills Training Project- SLBE
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS- This announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Service&apos;s intention to award financial assistance for the following project activities.  Members of the Youth Master Agreement- Youth Works Child and Family Services of Northwest Michigan- THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
Description: Teaching Traditional Building/Landscape Skills Training Project to connect at risk and adjudicated youth from the local nonprofit Youth Works &#8211; Child and Family Services, service learning future stewards programs. The park partnership with Youth Works &#8211; Child and Family Services is a conduit to underserved and under engaged youth of northwest Lower Michigan who participate in their programs. The Teaching Traditional Buildings/Landscape Trades Training Project will expose the youth to the park resources and engage them in service learning and future steward projects. Teaching Traditional Building/Landscape Skills Training Project to connect at-risk and adjudicated youth (ages 14-35) from the local non-profit Youth Works service learning/future stewards programs. Projects will include timber framing, stone/brick masonry repair, wood window repair/glazing, blacksmithing, roofing and siding, pruning, horticulture, cultural landscape management, and other traditional building/cultural landscape trade practices. The goal of this project is to begin the teaching, learning, and preserving traditional building/landscape trades by encouraging youth to consider these trades as options for vocations at Sleeping Bear Dunes, in jobs within the neighboring communities, or nationwide.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: noel_miller@nps.gov
GrantorContactText: Noel A Miller &lt;br/&gt;Grants Management Specialist &lt;br/&gt;Phone 402-661-1658