Rural America Initiatives

Pregnancy prevention programs: ateyapi: thinking about the future is a program providing mentors to teach sexual abstinence and lakota culture at the three high schools in rapid cityateyapi: it's your game - keeping it real is a teen pregnancy prevention evidence-based program for american indian youth.

Ana language - preservation of the lakota language which is rapidly diminishing. Many native american parents have lost the ability to teach their children the lakota language. The language, when it is taught, is presented like a "foreign language". No system exists for children in rapid city to learn their native language at a young age, in a natural way. Our project is an attempt to remedy these circumstances.