VIDEO | The CK Journey
The City Kids journey begins when youth enter the program in the sixth grade and continue through middle school, high school, and beyond. Watch this video to learn more!
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City Kids on WUSA9!
In case you missed it, tune it to see City Kids’ special feature on WUSA9. Participants and staff were interviewed about the program while on a recent horseback riding trip for SYEP.
VIDEO | Snow Club at CK
Get an inside look into year two of City Kids’ Snow Club program. Youth are provided with free lift tickets, ski gear, transportation, ski and ride school, meals, and equipment rentals for all five on-hill ski/snowboarding lessons at Vail’s Whitetail Ski Resort.
City Kids Wilderness Project Annual Report 2021-2022
2021 has been a year of preserving what has historically worked for the organization and recognizing how important it is to incorporate new initiatives that allow them to flourish under our care.
A New Program Model: Snow Club
In the winter of 2021, City Kids implemented our first ever Snow Club programming for all youth. In prior years, City Kids would facilitate occasional trips on the slopes, but now as a grantee of Vail Resort + Katz Amsterdam Foundation’s Epic for Everyone Youth Connection to Winter Sports Program, we are able take 30 […]
The Grand Climbing Experience
Every summer, City Kids JETs have the opportunity to climb the Grand Teton, the tallest peak in the Teton range with its summit standing at over two and a half miles above sea level. On August 7th, Desahray and Leon, two first-year JETs, experienced one of the biggest thrills of their lives as they took […]
City Kids’ Core Values
City Kids’ Core Values are the principals we use to guide our work. From our programming to making decisions for the future of the organization, these five values are incorporated into everything we do.
Meet City Kids’ New Deputy Director!
We are happy to introduce you to Caroline Hamric, who joined the City Kids staff as our Deputy Director in September. Q: Welcome to City Kids Caroline! Tell us about yourself and what you bring to City Kids. A: Thank you! I’m so pleased to have joined the City Kids team. I’m a Virginia native […]
Fall Program Update
by Rodney Fuller, Director of Programs DC For the first time since the fall of 2019, we have over 20 trips planned for City Kids youth this season! City Kids is excited to welcome our new JET Program Manager, Ginny Brooks, who joined our team full-time in September. Prior to this fall, Ginny served as […]
City Kid, Don’Zeal, featured in The Washington Post
Navigating the Wilderness, Avoiding Predators Urban and Rural Perspective by Courtland Milloy August 30, 2022 at 6:25 p.m. EDT About 2,000 miles from his home in Southeast Washington, 16-year-old Don’Zeal Davis pitched a tent in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. He spent the next 24 hours alone in the wilderness, a kind of training exercise held […]