by Heather Steinberger | Jan 19, 2016 | Christmas Toy Drive, Family Services
This month, we’d like to express our deepest gratitude to a very special group of CRYP supporters: the champions of the 2015 Christmas Toy Drive. With their help, we smashed our goal of serving 1,500 children. This past December, CRYP and its partners brought...
by Heather Steinberger | Jan 13, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center
Although it’s hard to imagine in the depths of winter, spring is around the corner. And that means teenagers across the country are already thinking of that one special occasion that has become an American rite of passage. The prom. Yet on South Dakota’s remote,...
by Heather Steinberger | Jan 13, 2016 | Family Services
The numbers are in, and they’re numbers the Cheyenne River Youth Project® has never seen before. In its 2015 Christmas Toy Drive, the 27-year-old, not-for-profit youth organization brought Santa Claus to more than 1,600 children across South Dakota’s remote Cheyenne...
by Heather Steinberger | Jan 7, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, CRYP Hall of Fame
Maxwell Peacock, 14, is a member of CRYP’s second cohort of Waniyetu Wowapi (Winter Count) Art Interns. He started coming to our campus regularly about a year ago, drawn to the environment and learning opportunities he saw at the Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life) teen...