Native Youth Wellness Program

Native Youth Wellness Program The Native Youth Wellness program is based out of Lane ESD and centers Native (AI/AN/H) students' well-being.

We have learned through conversations with community members, educators, and families that COVID has left Lane County Natives feeling disconnected and without many cultural spaces and events. Through grant funding and the ability to hire our Native Youth Wellness Specialist, we help promote and fund materials and foods for the newly created community-hosted Culture Night. We also support the local

Title VI programs, help provide funding, and provide rural outreach and supports to schools without Title programs. The focus of the Native Youth Wellness program is the importance of community, care, and connection and encouraging the youth to connect to their Native communities and culture.

Just a reminder our Culture Night is tomorrow (Tuesday)! Hope to see you there!!🗓 Tuesday 4/28, LCC Longhouse⏰ 5:30–8:30...
04/27/2026

Just a reminder our Culture Night is tomorrow (Tuesday)! Hope to see you there!!

🗓 Tuesday 4/28, LCC Longhouse
⏰ 5:30–8:30 PM
🍽 Dinner provided, sides/drinks welcome
💚 FREE

Schedule:
5:30 Arrival, settle in, turn in scavenger hunts for a raffle ticket
5:45–6:15 Dinner
6:15–8:00 Nature Bingo
8:00–8:30 Community clean-up

Last invitation for the scavenger hunt, and no finding spiderwebs, fruit, or water inside your house doesn’t count! 🤣 You have to get outside! ☁️☀️

Bring your bingo card or show us a photo of your completed scavenger hunt at Culture Night. Every bingo will get a raffle ticket for a special prize! 🌷🩵

Please come eat, play, and gather in Native joy! 🌎💚

For most Tribal citizens, every day is Earth Day, but it is always fun to lean in a little extra! It’s not too late to d...
04/22/2026

For most Tribal citizens, every day is Earth Day, but it is always fun to lean in a little extra! It’s not too late to do the nature bingo, bring it to culture night next Tuesday, and get entered into the raffle!

Native Youth Wellness Program (Lane ESD) is offering our first ever, no-cost statewide Tribal History/Shared History 101...
04/21/2026

Native Youth Wellness Program (Lane ESD) is offering our first ever, no-cost statewide Tribal History/Shared History 101 Webinar, Sunday May 3rd from 10am-3pm. Please see the flyer for more info and please share widely with your networks!

This webinar is oriented to K-12 administrators, classified and certified staff and will cap at 200 registrants. There will be raffles throughout the day and resources available to share with participants.

We please visit this link to register: https://bit.ly/nyw_thshwebinar26

Mother Nature Scavenger Hunt! 🌎💚We are so excited to have a special challenge leading up to our April Culture Night. We ...
04/14/2026

Mother Nature Scavenger Hunt! 🌎💚

We are so excited to have a special challenge leading up to our April Culture Night. We know that for Tribal Nations every day is Earth Day, but since it is celebrated on April 21st for everyone else, we wanted to encourage our NYW community to lean in extra this month!

Please take a screenshot of this bingo card or download and print it out. We invite you to head outside and try to find all of the things, scavenger hunt style! And no, finding spiderwebs, fruit, or water inside your house doesn’t count! 🤣 You have to get outside! ☁️☀️

Bring your bingo card or show us a photo of your completed scavenger hunt at Culture Night on April 28! Every bingo will get a raffle ticket for a special prize! 🌷🩵

April Culture Night: Mother Nature Bingo Night @ LCC LonghouseYou ask, we listen! After the First Food’s Feast (coming M...
04/14/2026

April Culture Night: Mother Nature Bingo Night @ LCC Longhouse

You ask, we listen! After the First Food’s Feast (coming May 21), Bingo Night is our second highest rated event for culture nights, according to you on the last three end-of-year surveys.

Since we already do a bingo night in summer and winter, we decided doing a special spring bingo night in April would be fun. Special because all of the prizes require us to get outside and spend time with Mama Nature! 💚🌷🌎

🗓 Tuesday 4/28, LCC Longhouse
⏰ 5:30–8:30 PM
🍽 Dinner provided, sides/drinks welcome
💚 FREE

Schedule:
5:30 Arrival, settle in, turn in scavenger hunts for a raffle ticket
5:45–6:15 Dinner
6:15–8:00 Nature Bingo
8:00–8:30 Community clean-up

Please come eat, play, and gather in Native joy!

Happy Sunday! UO Native American Student Union Mother’s Powwwow flyer has dropped!! We hope to see a great turnout this ...
04/12/2026

Happy Sunday! UO Native American Student Union Mother’s Powwwow flyer has dropped!! We hope to see a great turnout this year, honoring both mothers and graduates.

Also sharing flyers from around the state, because anytime we can come together in community is medicine! Please feel free to send or tag us for future events and we will do our best to share. 🩵🪶

Sharing!!! will be sharing about Measure 20-373.
03/31/2026

Sharing!!! will be sharing about Measure 20-373.

We are co-sponsoring this event!! Hope to see a great turn out!
03/25/2026

We are co-sponsoring this event!! Hope to see a great turn out!

Spring is here! 🌱 A season of renewal: new growth, new blooms, new possibilities. With Native Youth Wellness, we believe...
03/20/2026

Spring is here! 🌱 A season of renewal: new growth, new blooms, new possibilities.

With Native Youth Wellness, we believe that healing happens in relationship to land, to culture, to each other.

Culture is medicine. And we are growing, even when it’s quiet or feels hard. 🪶✨ Pisa Spring Equinox! 💐💖

We are so excited to sponsor this fundraising event and invite all of our BIPOC followers to join us at Mapleton HS this...
03/20/2026

We are so excited to sponsor this fundraising event and invite all of our BIPOC followers to join us at Mapleton HS this evening for a bingo night!

NYW will cover the cost of bingo cards and concessions for all of the BIPOC attendees!! We hope to see you there!

This is tonight!! Hope to see YOU there!!
03/17/2026

This is tonight!! Hope to see YOU there!!

March Culture Night: Pizza and Paint Night @ LCC Longhouse

We’re honored to welcome Lilia Bravo, who will lead us in a landscape painting tutorial. Lilia is an Oregon-born artist whose parents immigrated from Mexico in 1989. A traveler, artist, bartender, taco lover, and student, she loves sharing creativity and community through art.

🗓 Tuesday 3/17, LCC Longhouse
⏰ 5:30–8:30 PM
🍽 Dinner provided
💚 FREE (spots for the first 35ish attendees based on supply availability)

Schedule:
5:30 Arrival, settle in
5:45–6:15 Dinner
6:15–8:00 Painting Tutorial
8:00–8:30 Community clean-up

Please note culture night is a week early due to Spring Break. We hope you come eat, paint, and gather in Native joy with us!

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1200 Highway 99N
Eugene, OR
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