Young Citizen Pruners for Today & Tomorrow (NA-94-0331)

This program motivates, educates, trains and integrates youth into educational and volunteer project that ensure future tree care.

The NYC metropolitan region faces a long term tree crisis. Active citizen education and participation in tree care and its management is the only realistic way the region can hope to combat this crisis. The Young Citizen Pruners for Today and Tomorrow Program motivates, educates, trains and integrates youth into educational and volunteer programs for continuity to ensure future tree care.

The YCPTT program is a two-pronged approach dealing with the primary and secondary education arenas, and is designed to educate children and then integrate them into TNY's programs and community self-help efforts. The two program components are (1) Interactive field curriculum for young children ("The Great Cookie Lesson") and (2) The Young Citizen Pruner Program which combines a NYC Board of Education approved science curriculum with lifetime skills training.

The project ultimately precipitates community empowerment and self-help using trees as the vehicle to address a wise range of issues that includes environmental and economic viability, an awareness of "cause and affect", and basic maintenance and skills training which guarantee tree management, continuity and health.

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