Youth Development Networks
Network Contact Information
Klamath-Lake YDN (http://ydnk-lake.wetpaint.com/):
- Sharon Bowman (AmeriCorps*VISTA)
541-274-1564 or ydnklamath-lake@citizensforsafeschools.org - Debbie Vought (Site Supervisor)
541-882-3198 or dvought@citizensforsafeschools.org
Multnomah County YDN:
- Jennifer Dressen (AmeriCorps*VISTA)
503-517-8990 or ydn-multnomah@oregonmentors.org - Carolyn Becic (Site Supervisor)
503-517-8990 or carolyn@oregonmentors.org
Mid-Valley YDN:
- Lynn Kneeland (AmeriCorps*VISTA)
503-302-0512 or ydnmid-valley@wesd.org - Beth Unverzagt (Site Supervisor)
503-540-4481 or beth.unverzagt@wesd.org
Rogue-Valley YDN:
- Barbra Henry (AmeriCorps*VISTA)
541-499-7936 or ydnrogue-valley@oregonmentors.org - Angela Curtis (Site Supervisor)
541-774-7940 or curtisar@jacksoncounty.org
About Youth Development Network
Oregon Mentors and OregonASK (www.oregonask.org) have partnered to assist communities throughout the state to build a regional support network of mentoring and after school programs.
An AmeriCorps*VISTA member serves as coordinator for each region’s Youth Development Network (YDN). Network activities promote the quality and sustainability of programs that serve youth throughout the region by supporting staff and volunteers. The YDN coordinator will work with providers, parents and other youth development advocates to boost regional supports for mentoring and after school programs.
Each network will convene around a locally-defined agenda, identify resources, offer trainings, and share practice wisdom through the Oregon Mentors Web (resource library and calendar).
Oregon Mentors is sponsoring the three-year project with funding from Meyer Memorial Trust and the Corporation for National and Community Service. Additional support is being provided by the host sites for the project: Citizens for Safe Schools (Klamath Falls), and OregonASK (Salem).
Current networks work out of Salem, Klamath Falls, Medford, and Portland.
