by Heather Steinberger | Feb 22, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center
Less than three weeks remain before the Cheyenne River Youth Project®’s eagerly anticipated 2016 Passion for Fashion event. That means donors and supporters have until Thursday, March 10 to send their new and gently used dresses, formal shoes, jewelry and accessories...
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 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...