Teaching Traditional Building/Landscape Skills Training Project- SLBE

Teaching Traditional Building/Landscape Skills Training Project to connect at risk and adjudicated youth from the local nonprofit Youth Works – Child and Family Services, service learning future stewards programs.  The park partnership with Youth Works – 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.

Nonprofit

• Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)