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The Tree Care Program is our effort to introduce and offer employment to our urban young adults. We provide skills training in natural resource fields including landscape architecture and basic wood construction, urban farming, and urban gardening and management.
We also provide soft skills training in the form of professional development in preparation for employment.
Weeks consist of professional development soft skills training and greenspace hard skills training at GYF's Urban Conservation Training Institute (GYF Farm) and days spent in the field observing actual everyday work of our tree care partner company. The cohort observes the workers in the field, asks questions periodically, and get a full understanding of a day in the life of a tree care worker.
The cohort consists of 10 to 20 urban young adults that are interested in a possible career in the tree care industry. The program duration is 8 to 10 weeks, when at the completion, the interns may transition directly into employment with the tree care partner we work directly with during the program.
The Greening Youth Foundation’s (GYF) mission is to engage under-represented youth and young adults while connecting them to the outdoors and careers in conservation. GYF’s cultural-based environmental education programming engages children from local communities and exposes them to healthy lifestyle choices in order to create an overall healthy community.
