by Heather Steinberger | Oct 3, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, Sustainable Agriculture
This month, the Cheyenne River Youth Project is competing to win a $10,000 Wellmark Foundation Community Kickstarter grant. From now through October 7, members of the public can vote for CRYP’s grant project once per day at www.facebook.com/WellmarkBCBS. To date, the...
by Heather Steinberger | Aug 29, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center
This month, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, commemorated a very special milestone. It concluded Midnight Basketball’s 20th anniversary summer season at the Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life) teen center. According to Tammy Eagle Hunter,...
by Heather Steinberger | Apr 11, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center
On Wednesday, April 6, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® welcomed its spring cohort of teen wellness interns, who will spend the month focusing on how to nurture healthy minds and bodies. These teen internships are a critical component of CRYP’s ongoing holistic...
by Heather Steinberger | Apr 4, 2016 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, The Main Youth Center
In keeping with its ongoing commitment to holistic youth wellness, the Cheyenne River Youth Project® is developing engaging new programming that it hopes will inspire young people on the remote Cheyenne River Lakota reservation to live healthier, more vibrant lives....
by Heather Steinberger | Nov 11, 2015 | Waniyetu Wowapi Lakota Arts Institute
It’s been a huge week for the Cheyenne River Youth Project®, which has served children and families on South Dakota’s remote 2.8-million-acre Cheyenne River reservation for 27 years. The not-for-profit, grassroots youth organization has won the Bush Foundation’s 2015...