Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG

YOUTH LEADERSHIP DRCC supports youth internship programs including the Duwamish Valley Youth Corps, DVYC. DVYC is a youth engagement program focusing on environmental, climate justice and green job skills. Through lessions about environmental justice, community issues, and hands-on service projects, DVYC provides a critical pathway towards education and employment goals, particularly green jobs, for participants. By providing experiences that are limited to our youth at home or school, DVYC enriches and builds upon their own lived experiences, while addressing health outcomes and environmental justice issues. Last year, over 350 youth participated and graduated from our seasonal cohort youth program. Majority of our youth are local from the community and represent the Black, Indigenous, Inmigrant and Refugees communities Youth helped collect more than 800 lbs of trash and debris. They also supported planting and or giving more than 129 trees to community and 900 pounds of compost. DVYC provided more than 4,000 meals per year for our youth.