Wise Fool New Mexico awarded $15K grant for youth programs

It’s summer season break and Clever Idiot New Mexico continues to supply programming for teenagers.

Due to this, the Santa Fe-based group acquired a $15,000 Intention Excessive Grant kind the New York Life Basis.

It’s one in all 20 youth improvement organizations to obtain the cash.

This funding will construct center faculty youth’s resilience via circus arts by advancing their bodily power and exposing them to social justice points, together with racial and gender fairness, well being and weight loss program tradition, and inclusive group engagement.

“We really feel honored to be chosen and amongst so many outstanding youth organizations. Clever Idiot New Mexico is a social circus group, and our packages supply equitable entry no matter age, gender, capacity, physique dimension, or earnings, and repair the LGBTQ+, disabled, and deprived communities alike,” stated Alishiya Kapoor and Kristen Woods, co-executive administrators, in an announcement.

Kapoor stated the grant will particularly develop the 2 center faculty youth packages — Teen BUST! and Teen Troupe.

“(The grant) will assist teenagers regain their resiliency after these testing pandemic years. And, whereas studying easy methods to stroll on stilts or dangle the other way up from a trapeze, Clever Foolian teenagers will depart our studio extra conscious, a bit braver, and keen to grow to be socially engaged,” Kapoor stated.

Teen Troupe, is a year-round circus intensive, meets weekly to coach, work collectively on acts, and plan performances whereas constructing a supportive peer group. Center College youth enter an exploratory section of life when peer stress can dominate their selections.

The coaches help this transition and coach youth as they navigate their choices.

Many members advance and grow to be camp counselors and paid assistant coaches, thus constructing time-management and management expertise.

Teen BUST! is a two-week summer season intensive program for center school-aged ladies, trans, and gender non-binary youth, a group that helps taking dangers, pushing boundaries, and changing into bodily daring.

Every year, lecturers and counselors nominate “at-promise” teenagers to take part on this two-week intensive summer season program freed from cost.