Annual Report 2006 - Big Sky Youth Empowerment

Big Sky Youth Empowerment Project means opportunity…
opportunity to be myself, opportunity to develop mentally,
opportunity to enjoy things I can not afford. I’m better off
because of this experience, because I have had some troubles…
and now I have a program to keep me occupied and help run.
It’s good to give back to the program, I’ve helped with fundraising,
representing with my word (I did the Public Service
Announcements on KGLT), and even wrapping Christmas gifts.
It’s important to give back, because if I didn’t there might
not be a program.
Byep needs to succeed because there are a lot of kids who need
the skills that byep brings to the equation. So it’s like 1+1=2
you got the kids, the program and you got BYEP
Bo Jemison
Youth Participant
Snow Participant ‘04
Fly Fish ’04
Snow Participant ‘05
Fly Fish ’05
Youth Snow Mentor ‘06
Fly Fish ’06
Youth Snow Mentor ‘07
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N U M B E R O F P E O P L E
Program History
The Big Sky Youth Empowerment Project is committed to
providing high quality programming. This means never
enrolling more than 6 youth per group and keeping our
mentor to youth ratio high. Fiscal year 2007 will see our
largest numbers to date both in terms of youth served
and mentors enrolled. Youth and mentors spend over
150 hours together participating in an intense 12 week
adventure-based group mentoring program. Youth and
mentors spend one day per week participating in an
outdoor activity (i.e., snowboarding, skiing, fly fishing,
rock climbing, horseback riding, or white water rafting)
and one evening per week engaged in a life skills
curriculum focused on a developmentally appropriate
topic (i.e., communication, healthy choices, teamwork).
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Y O U T H S E R V E D / M E N T O R S E N R O L L E D
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2001- 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
2002 (projected)
Y E A R
“Big Sky Youth Empowerment Project
provides an outlet to get away from
stress, problems, and it also allows
people to experience things that they
would not normally be able to do.”
– Youth 2006
Number of Your Served
Volunteers
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16 13
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