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Marin Youth Ecology Corps Readies for Launch

The eight-week pilot program aims to teach at-risk Marin County youths ecology-oriented employment skills.


Sixteen Marin County at-risk youths involved in a pilot program that will put money in their pockets and add ecology-oriented job skills to their resume are about to get to work.

The program is sponsored by the Marin County Board of Supervisors in partnership with four agencies – the Conservation Corps North Bay, the Marin Youth Ecology Corps, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and the California State Parks - in the program's launch.

The program launches on Friday with an 11 a.m. To 1:30 p.m. kick-off event at the Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden.

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The participants, who aged 16 to 24, have already begun orientations.

The $94,000 program is being funded by grants and $30,000 in county money, according to a Marin Independent Journal report.

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The program represents a unique opportunity for its participants, Max Korten of the CCNB said.

“We are really excited about this summer’s program and the chance to engage young people in gaining new skills and doing important work in the outdoors,” Korten said in a prepared statement.

“The sense of accomplishment from building a trail or planting, tending and harvesting a row of tomatoes is truly meaningful and rare in our modern world.”


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