Building Healthy Communities - Del Norte & Tribal Lands

05/23/2022

Applications due this Friday!

04/13/2022

COVID VACCINE AND YOUNG CHILDREN TOWN HALL
Monday, April 25,
5:30-6:30 p.m

ZOOM: bit.ly/currycovid
Livestream: facebook.com/wildriverscf
By phone: 669-900-6833 (ID # 25120728

Parents and caregivers of young children are invited to attend this virtual Curry County COVID-19 town hall meeting with a panel of local community and health officials to help answer your questions regarding the pediatric COVID19 vaccines and other safety measures recommended by public health. Other topics will include the low rate of child vaccination in Curry County and what it means as the virus becomes endemic.

The online event is scheduled for 5:30-6:30 p.m, and will be moderated by Wild Rivers Community Foundation and Humboldt Area Foundation (HAF+WRCF). This forum was created to share clear, consistent and factual information about the pandemic and was created by local community leaders and nonprofits.

SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS
ahead of time to panelists to [email protected]

03/29/2022

CALLING ALL DEL NORTE YOUNG ADULTS!
The Opportunity Youth Forum (a program of the Aspen Institute) is conducting a series of focus groups to understand how young people define financial well-being and what they need to build wealth for themselves and their families.

They are looking for youth ages 16-24 to participate in one of four 75-minute focus groups that are meeting virtually in April. Each participant will receive a $100 Visa gift card for their involvement.

Learn more at https://www.aspencommunitysolutions.org/

Sign up at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhTFIz16-H3A4edskI8Pfmp7sVhYrrTgupmO9k2qyWSLHQzQ/viewform

Email contact: [email protected]

03/22/2022

2022 Summer Youth mini-grants for Curry, Del Norte and Humboldt counties

Groups and organizations planning summer youth programs, camps and activities in Curry, Del Norte and Humboldt counties are encouraged to apply for mini grants offered by Humboldt Area Foundation and Wild Rivers Community Foundation.

The deadline to submit applications is Monday, May 2. Find the application at bit.ly/youthminigrants.

The mini grants are available to programs scheduled between June 1 and Sept. 1. The average grant award will be $500. The summer youth program grants are normally made for expenses such as sports and recreational equipment, arts and craft supplies, field trips and scholarships for low-income participants. Past years’ grant dollars created summer camp opportunities for local youth; provided food to children in need; and sponsored language and cultural education and activities, youth outdoor stewardship activities, summer reading programs, music and theater programs, and various community art projects.

Regarding COVID-19: Programs must meet the guidelines and restrictions provided by the California or Oregon Department of Health to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

For more information contact [email protected] or call 707-442-2993.

03/22/2022

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03/22/2022

Come check out the Toy Room and Wonder Bus on Thursday!

02/07/2022

The Wild Rivers Community Foundation hopes to hear from a segment of the population that is difficult to reach — youth ages 16-24 who are unemployed and out of school.

To participate in the survey, visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/C8FRSSP

WRCF, an affiliate of Humboldt Area Foundation, which serves Del Norte and Curry counties, has partnered with California Center for Rural Policy at Cal Poly Humboldt to conduct a survey asking about housing, accessibility to technology and transportation, said CCRP Research Analyst Tracie Wynand.

The survey also seeks to discover what’s preventing those youth from either entering the job market or continuing their education, Wynand said. There are also questions about the pandemic and its role in their current situation, she said.

“We based the survey off the American Community Survey, the Census survey, to look for comparable data and fill in those missing pieces of data the American Community Survey may not be able to capture on a more local level,” she said.

According to the Aspen Institute, which provided the funding for WRCF’s survey, opportunity youth are between the ages of 16 and 24 and are unemployed and are not enrolled in school. There are currently 4.6 million opportunity youth in the United States.
In Del Norte County, 18 percent of its youth were disconnected from work and school in 2020, according to County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. Lassen was the only California county to have a higher ranking than Del Norte’s, with 19 percent of its youth disconnected from work and school, according to County Health Rankings & Roadmaps.

Despite that ranking, in Del Norte County estimating the actual number of opportunity youth is difficult, Wynand said. According to the 2019 American Community Survey, there were 2,870 15-24-year-olds in Del Norte County, but the survey didn’t indicate whether or not they were employed or still in school, she said.

“They’re a difficult population to find or to contact at least,” Wynand told the Outpost. “We’re trying to understand the barriers they may be facing in these types of institutions or education systems and we also want to understand what are their needs to start engaging in them.”

To increase survey response, CCRP and the Wild Rivers Community Foundation has reached out to community partners in Del Norte, urging them to help with its distribution.

“We hope to learn from the data of what those needs are and hopefully be able to partner with Del Norte partners to figure out the processes and programs to help this demographic group engage in these systems,” Wynand said.

According to Wynand, this is the second time CCRP and the WRCF deployed its Opportunity Youth Survey. The first opening of the survey occurred on Nov. 30, she said.

This second survey will be available until the end of February, according to Wynand.

Survey participants don’t have to provide their name or any information that will identify them. Each participant will receive a $10 gift card for completing the survey and will be entered into a drawing for one of four $100 gift cards.

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