by Heather Steinberger | Feb 22, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, The Main Youth Center
February is “Heart Health Month” at the Cheyenne River Youth Project®, and the 27-year-old, not-for-profit youth organization’s staff has been hard at work organizing youth programming that has a special focus on diabetes prevention. It’s a cause close to staff...
by Heather Steinberger | Feb 17, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, CRYP Hall of Fame
In recent years, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® has devoted significant resources to its wellness programming. We believe the best way to serve our children and provide for a positive, healthy future is to address their holistic well-being — from nutrition and...
by Heather Steinberger | Feb 8, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center
Less than five weeks remain before the Cheyenne River Youth Project®’s annual Passion for Fashion event, where young women from across South Dakota’s 2.8-million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation come together to celebrate that classic American rite of passage,...
by Heather Steinberger | Jan 25, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center
The classical Greek philosopher Plato once wrote, “The part can never be well unless the whole is well.” The staff at the Cheyenne River Youth Project® understands this concept better than most; to make a real, lasting difference on South Dakota’s remote Cheyenne...
by Heather Steinberger | Jan 25, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center
This month, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® hosted a two-week series of teen workshops at its Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life) teen center. Seventy-five teens attended the workshops, which focused on preparing for college, valuable job and life skills, positive...
