Current Happenings

The Sonoma County Summer Youth Ecology Corps – Summer 2009

The Sonoma County Summer Youth Ecology Corps is a new effort, supported by a partnership between the Sonoma County Water Agency (SCWA), the Workforce Investment Board (WIB) and Youth Council, and a number of governmental and private non-profit organizations with an educational or environmental mission. SCWA has engaged New Ways to Work to support the project planning process and identify quality conservation-related work projects for youth to complete this summer. Once the projects are identified, the WIB/YC will be responsible for placing youth at the project sites, through the Sonoma County Workforce Investment Act summer jobs program provider(s).

Conservation projects will be completed in coordination with this year’s Summer Jobs Program. While the details of the summer program are still being finalized by the WIB and Youth Council, it is expected that the program will begin in mid to late June and will be offered to youth ages 14-24, recruited through the county’s youth and young adult programs, including schools, and delivered by youth providers, selected through a competitive RFP process conducted by the Youth Council and WIB. Small crews of 6-8 youth will be placed by the youth providers for six to eight weeks of work on habitat restoration, maintenance, and other projects with Sonoma County environmental and conservation-related organizations.

For more information please click here or contact Kellie Noe at knoe@newwaystowork.org.

Summer Youth Ecology Corps Project Proposals

Project Host Overview

Project Host Cover Sheet

Project Detail Sheet

Internship Request Form

To apply as a program provider:

The Workforce Investment Board issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the summer program on March 18th. 
To request a RFP package please contact  Laura Sauter at 707-575-8507 or email her at lsauter@schsd.org or go to www.sonomawib.org/documents/SummerJobsRFP-FullDocument.pdf. Responses to the RFP are due April 16, 2009.