i Youth gain work experience, earn income in TYEE (Tribal Youth Education^dEmploZent)^
Richard DeAnda (above)
Dennis Lancaster II (above right)
Public Works
San Poil Whitehead (right)
Lexi Metcalf
Savanna Rilatos
Tenas lllahee Childcare Center
“Being a TYEE worker at the childcare has taught me that every kid is different
and you have to handle them in different ways,” said Metcalf.
Records Management
DeAnda, Lancaster and Whitehead
were just a few of the TYEE workers who
helped set up tents for the annual Nesika
lllahee Pow-Wow on Government Hill.
Brittney Jordan-Goodell
477 Self-Sufficiency Program
Sidney Rilatos
Jazmyn Metcalf
Accounting
Accounting
Photos by Morgan Crawford
David Greenawald
Kai Skidmore
Healthy Traditions
Project
Kai Skidmore and
David Greenawald
were two TYEE work
ers who spent a little
time each day literally
playing in the dirt.
“The most rewarding
part of working at the
garden was getting to
watch the things we
planted and watered
turn into something
we can actually eat,”
said Skidmore.
Misti Warren
Siletz Community Health Clinic
Warren assisted with filing, organizing
and answering phones, and helped build
the clinic’s float for the pow-wow parade.
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September 2012