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employment opportunities for Navajo youth:
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Activity
1: Promote Summer Food Service Programs
in communities and ensure that high
school age youth are employed to make
lunches; |
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Activity 2: sponsor
and create day camps for impoverished
Navajo communities as models for other
impoverished communities and hire high
school age youth as youth leaders of
small groups of younger children; |
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Activity 3: Seek Department
of Labor, foundation, and corporation
grants to place Navajo high school age
youth in summer employment; |
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Activity 4: Hire from
five to ten youth to work for the Navajo
Institute during the summer during such
things as community cleanups, answering
phones, writing, school improvement,
passing out fliers, and acting as office
assistants; |
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Activity 5: Create a
work party for community jobs: Cleaning
elderly homes, etc., hire high school
youth through a Department of Labor
grant. |
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| To create partnerships
with camping associations so that Navajo children
can attend summer camps and Navajo high school
graduates can secure summer jobs in camps:
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Activity
1: Secure funding for a part-time position
to create a relationship between the
Institute and camping associations;
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Activity 2: Send staff
to camping conventions to promote a
joint relationship which benefits both
the Navajo and the camps; |
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Activity 3: Create a
promotional brochure to attract both
campers, youth campers, and high school
youth as counselors for summer camps;
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Activity 4: Host a Two-day
recruiting conference for camping organizations
and promote it to Navajo youth through
the Navajo Times; |
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Activity 5: Seek camp
scholarships for impoverished Navajo
youth with the nation’s top camps.
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| To create jump start educational
laboratories using up-to-the-minute technology
to provide Navajo special education students
with a rapid way to learn to read and do math:
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Activity
1: Seek funding for a facility to enhance
the educational technology skills of
Navajo youth and improve their reading,
math, and writing scores; |
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Activity 2: Conduct summer
camp, weekend camp, and after school
camps to improve Navajo educational
skills and provide an incentive to get
out of special education classes; |
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Activity 3: Partnership
with technology firms to lend staff
to assist in teaching technology skills
to Navajo youth, including endowment
leadership, capital campaign leadership,
and on-site training; |
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Activity 4: Fund and
supply notebook computers to special
education students and others to improve
writing and other skills; |
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Activity 5: Establish
a new way to teach reading and spelling
that will eliminate special education
from the schools by the year 2020. |
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| To promote swimming, lifeguarding,
water safety first aid, CPR, First Responder,
and other classes through the American Red
Cross for Navajo children and youth on/near
the Navajo Nation;: |
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Activity
1: Raise funds through individuals and
corporate sponsors to provide American
Red Cross training in all areas relating
to swimming, lifeguarding, and CPR;
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Activity 2: Train Navajo
youth in CPR and Standard First Aid;
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Activity 3: Host summer
camp for Red Cross training events for
Navajo high school youth; |
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Activity 4: Provide
in school first aid training through
training teaching teachers in Basic
First Aid Instruction; |
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Activity 5: Create a
safety consciousness in the Navajo Nation
and train people in accident prevention
and injury prevention. |
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