Youth Conservation Corps
With a team of experienced project managers, engineers and youth development leaders, Greening Youth’s Southeastern Youth Conservation Corp is uniquely qualified to execute projects and services requiring skill development and execution in Trail Design, Construction and Maintenance, Wildlife and Fisheries Management, Environmental Education, Habitat Restoration and Preservation, Storm Water and Watershed Treatment, Facility Renovation/Green Retrofit Archaeological Surveys, GIS/GPS Mapping, Historical, Cultural Resource Studies and Visitor and Interpretive Services.
The goals of GYF Youth Conservation Corps are:
- to nurture enthusiastic and responsible environmental stewardship among disconnected youth;
- to provide meaningful conservation assignments to youth participants in the areas of resource management, interpretation, community outreach and education, historic preservation and recreation programs; and
- to provide training and industry certification skills in habitat restoration, reforestation, storm water treatment, and environmental stewardship.
YCC is comprised of a diverse, competent corps of young enthusiastic environmentalists ages 15-25. GYF recruits from public and private high schools throughout the Southeast. GYF also has strong relationships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities throughout the country. All youth conservation corps member receive 40 hours of basic training.
Student Corps members receive training in innovative and environmentally sustainable approaches to trail planning, design and construction, new and existing trail corridors, summer and winter-use trails, and multi-use trails with paved or naturally-surfaced treadways. Corp members will learn and execute practical, low-cost and ‘low-tech’ solutions to the unique challenges faced by NPS, recognizing each state’s wide range of soil and site conditions, riparian area concerns and climatic extremes.
GYF provides three main program models to meet your needs:
Conservation Crews:
- Comprised of 6-8 enrollees
- Two trained GYF Corps Member team leaders
- Capable of undergoing month-long, labor-intensive conservation projects such as, trail construction, invasive removal and ecological restoration
Conservation Interns:
- College undergraduates, grad students or adult learners recruited to meet your needs in any conservation discipline, from 3 to 12 months.
Conservation Corps:
- Specialized teams of GYF Corps Members serving under a GYF project leader, assigned to a specific project
- Corps assignments typically last from 3-12 months
GYF Crews, Interns and Corps Members are provided to our partners on a cost-share basis. The cost-share is determined by a variety of factors including travel costs, length of service and housing availability. GYF invoices partners based on actual costs.
If you need pricing information for a position(s), please call GYF’s Operations Director, James Ezeilo, at (404) 254-4827 or send an email to james@gyfoundation.org
