Youth in Parks
Creating Park Advocates
We help to support youth programs for all ages at our partner national parks.
Junior Ranger
Youth Rangers
Youth Programs
Our support helps make possible daylong visits or month-long internships.
Connecting Kids to Culture
As part of a park-wide program entitled “Special Events to Engage and Connect,” r4th-grade students gather at Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park for two days every November to open the Hawaiian Makahiki season. They absorb Hawaiian culture through hula lessons, fishing lure and lauhala bracelet-making, kapa cloth stamping and much more. Students also hear about invasive species, Hawaiian monk seals, and seasonal fish spawning.
Bringing Youth to Parks
Our support to Haleakalā National Park has made it possible for hundreds of local youth to visit the park for day visits via rental buses. In Hawaiʻi, school buses do not belong to the schools and must be rented. This additional expense is often too much of a financial challenge to schools, and we are happy to help provide opportunities for experiential education.
Helping Kids Care
At the National Park of American Samoa, HPPA funding helps to support the costs of transportation for local school kids on field trips into this jewel-like park, something park staff cheers as “a great program.”