DAYTIME PROGRAM

AFTERSCHOOL

TEEN FELLOWSHIPS + EMPLOYMENT

SUMMER

SJLA PAID FELLOWSHIP (FALL 2025)

Sept 22 - Nov 21 | Nourishing Fire Community Event (date tbd) | Teens with working papers
Wednesday & Fridays | 3:30 - 7pm | Mandatory staff training date: Saturday, mid Sept (time TBD)
With Amanda Boyd, Enrique Rivera & Guest Educators

Learning leadership through art, music, personal transformation, and community organizing!

A space for teens to practice personal transformation for the sake of collective liberation. Through regular creative practice, play, and action, we will deepen our understanding of ourselves and build strong and loving relationships with each other. SJLA youth learn to tend to themselves and one another through mentorship, reflection, and even hosting intergenerational gatherings. SJLA youth staff learn to connect personal passions with communal responsibility, helping to maintain our physical space, guiding younger teens in feeling seen and cared for, and bringing community events and activities to life. SJLA youth also spend dedicated time organizing for education justice and other causes that are meaningful to the group based on lived experience.

In addition to working on their own projects, SJLA Fellows will be expected to attend all sessions and support our program team with setting up, cleaning up, and providing support for younger program attendees.

This is a paid employment opportunity for teens with valid working papers. Fellows working in the Spring may be invited back to work as paid staff during Spring and our summer SJLA intensive.

If you’re looking for a free afterschool program for middle schoolers or teens, apply for SJLA Fall 2025.

ReGen Teens (2025)
A 9-month Teen Employment Program

Sept-Nov | Wed & Fri | 3:30 - 6:30pm | Nourishing Fire Community Event (date tbd) | 14+
Mandatory staff training date: Saturday in mid Sept (time TBD)
With Kenn Pan, Micaela McClinton & Guest Educators

Hands-on gardening & creative entrepreneurship for teen leaders.

ReGen Teens work as a team to build meaningful relationships with nature and the Hudson community, and operate their own environmentally conscious businesses, including a bike-powered smoothie stand, drop-off compost business, and neighborhood greenhouse nursery! ReGen work sessions are a mix of hands-on activities in gardening, herbal medicine making, outdoor nature activities, cooking, and creative art making at Kite’s Nest’s greenhouse and gardens. ReGen teens deepen their land stewardship skills by visiting local farms, meeting other teens engaged in food justice initiatives around the Hudson Valley, and hosting educational community workshops and market events at Kite’s Nest’s greenhouse and garden.  ReGen is a paid employment opportunity that prioritizes teens ages 14-18 who are interested in building independent workforce skills and experience with a focus on the natural world and social justice. 

This is a paid employment opportunity for teens with valid working papers.