Duwamish River Cleanupcoalition-Technical Advisory Group

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.

ADVOCACY STEWARDSHIP DRCCs Advocacy and Community Resilience program addresses fundamental community capacity issues, including anti-displacement via affordable housing and local, living-wage job and career pathways grassroots organizing via support of community-based organizations, both non-profit and volunteer-run and action towards climate resilience via education and community-led activism. The program engages with about 750 community members annually through meetings and events that vary from monthly to quarterly to bi-annually.