OJJDP’S TRIBAL YOUTH DETENTION AND REENTRY GREEN GRANTEES GRANTEE PEER LEARNING MEETING CHOCTAW, MS APRIL 6-7, 2011 Accessing Resources For Your Environmentally

OJJDP’S TRIBAL YOUTH DETENTION AND REENTRY GREEN GRANTEES

GRANTEE PEER LEARNING MEETING CHOCTAW, MS

APRIL 6-7, 2011

Accessing Resources For Your Environmentally Sustainable Projects

Sustainable Nations

PennElys GoodShield is our technical partner and is available to assist you with strategic planning for your environmentally sustainable projects.

PennElys’s expertise is very broad and deep in most areas of sustainable project development.

If she does not have the knowledge or resources to help you, she can work to find them.

SN Strategic Planning

Identifying your physical and personal resources

Planning technical aspects of your projects

Creating budgets for projects

Creating realistic timelines for accomplishing projects

Being available for consulting for the duration of the work

SN Technical Assistance

SN offers workshops and training for staff and youth in their areas of expertise. They could include:

1.A Comprehensive five - day ‘Green Technology’ Training, designed at a level you choose.

Workshop allows for participation of the youth for the duration of the training. An important component is to leave youth with follow up information describing how and where they can pursue more education and/or a career in various fields. We acknowledge that job creation on the reservations in a community-serving and environmentally appropriate manner is key in keeping our youth out of trouble, and we can offer this type of supplementary education and exposure to our youth in our programs.


2. Basic Energy Efficiency/Energy Auditor Training Timeframe: 5 Days Students will be presented with a certificate upon

successful completion. This module is designed to cover: Residential energy uses and loss Assessment procedure, observations, techniques and

identifying goals Client interviews, communication and observational

inspections The house as a system – interactive effects The what, why, and how much of diagnostic testing

equipment


2. Basic Energy Efficiency/Energy Auditor Training, cont’d.

By the end of the module, students will be certified to perform:

Identify, Quantify and Report Energy LossesInspection, Observational, Assessment, Client

interview, Testing equipment, Write and present the report.


3. Rainwater Harvesting/Graywater System Design

Timeframe: 5 DaysStudents will be presented with a certificate

upon successful completion This training module covers water harvesting

principles and techniques, and graywater system design.


Rainwater Harvesting/Graywater System Design, cont’d.

By the end of the module, students will be able to:Analyze sites for water harvesting potentialApply key water harvesting principlesDesign and implement basic water harvesting

systemsDescribe the principles of graywater, it’s use, and

basic principles.Design and implement a basic graywater system.


4. Native PermacultureTime frame: 5 DaysStudents will be presented with a certificate

upon successful completion

This module covers contemporary permaculture design principles, career options in ecological design, and reflection on the modeling of these designs from traditional Native technologies.


Native Permaculture, cont’d.

Students will be able to explain and understand the concept of integrated design, and its relevance to culture and community development.

Students will be able to design an integrated permacultural landscape

Students will participate in various hands-on activities related to permacultural design. (This is TBD by the Grantee.)


5. Renewable Energy BasicsTimeframe: 5 days

Students will receive a certificate upon successful completion

This course covers the basics of electricity, what it is, how it is produced, and the impacts conventional energy production has had on our environment, focusing on impacts in Indian Country.


Renewable Energy Basics, cont’d.

Students will learn basic information on:Photovoltaics (Solar Electricity)Wind Energy Micro-hydroelectricityBasic overview of other renewable energy

technologies.


Renewable Energy Basics, cont’d.

Energy Efficiency Principles and PracticeBasic Photovoltaic (possibly wind, if instructor

available) System DesignSite evaluationVocabulary: Voltage, Amperage, electrical

terminologyWorking with Batteries – Safety PrecautionsHands-on Workshops with PV panels and

wiring


6. Green BuildingTimeframe: 5 DaysStudents will receive a certificate upon

successful completion


Green Building, cont’d.

Section 1: Intro to Green BuildingSection 2: Green Building AssessmentSection 3: Green Building vs Natural BuildingSection 4: Site Selection Section 5: Energy and Buildings/Passive Solar

DesignSection 6: Water SystemsGreen Building Final Project

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OJJDP’S TRIBAL YOUTH DETENTION AND REENTRY GREEN GRANTEES GRANTEE PEER LEARNING MEETING CHOCTAW, MS APRIL 6-7, 2011 Accessing Resources For Your Environmentally