The Youth Education Program serves Grand Ronde Tribal members, members of other Native tribes, and Grand Ronde descendant youth attending grades K-12 with academic, cultural, recreational, and personal enrichment services. Our mission is to provide a safe, healthy learning environment that values young people and meets the diverse educational needs of all youth and families with a caring staff of well trained professionals that are supported by a broad base of resources. Through providing academic, leadership, and cultural opportunities we will help build Native youth into positive role models and leaders of our future.
Population Served
The CTGR Youth Education Program currently serves 286 Tribal, Native and Descendant youth in the Willamina School District, Sheridan School District, and the West Valley Christian School. Our programs also serve an additional 120 out of area youth with our AMNH Internship, Youth Sponsorship, Native Youth Leadership Program, Summer Youth Employment Program, and Achievement and cognition Awards.
Hours 8:00 am – 5:00 pm with after hour and weekend events 503-879-2101
K-12 Student Parent Handbook
Youth Education K-12 covers a wide variety of services that directly involve and influence youth.
Youth Education K-12 provides tutorial support to Native American students in the local schools five days a week. The program employs five staff members who spend at least half of their time in the local schools working with Native youth.
Another component of our tutorial services is Individualize Education Plan (IEP) advocacy for students who qualify.
Afterschool Programming is offered to local Tribal, Native and Descendant youth from 3:00 pm to 5:15 pm Monday through Friday and includes a schedule of activities and tutorial assistance.
As the population of tribal/native youth in the Grand Ronde community continues to grow, so does the need for evening and weekend activities.
Native club is a gathering of Native American students and other students interested in Native American issues in the Willamina and Sheridan School Districts.
The Summer Program at K5 is ten weeks of complete bliss! Staff and students love this time of year because it brings days filled with parks, swimming, museums, crafts, gardening, and cooking.
The summer enrichment program for High School students is focused on academic recovery through the NovaNET system and is available to students at our Education Campus.
The Summer Youth Employment (SYE) program employs 35 youth between the ages of 14-17 during the summer months at various departments within CTGR.
The American Museum of Natural History ~ CTGR internship brings young members of the Grand Ronde community to the Museum in New York.
The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians partner to provide a leadership training program for students.
The purpose of the parent committee board is to advise and support the Youth Education K-12 program policies.
The Youth Canoe Club is open to anyone who is interested and participates in various events through out the year.
Youth Sponsorships are available to all Tribal youth in grades K-12 regardless
of location.