Mentoring

Hopa Mountain helps citizen leaders further develop their skills to deliver strength-based programs, services, and organizational efforts that meet needs expressed in their individual communities.

Hopa Mountain matches resources of all kinds to rural and tribal citizen leaders to help them achieve their goals.

Training

Hopa Mountain works to expand and enhance community-based opportunities for youth and adults. The majority of these efforts are informal (out-of-school) trainings for community leaders, with an emphasis on rural education, program development, non-profit organization, marketing, communication, facilitation, and planning.

Project Citizen Workshop in Bozeman January 22-23, 2010

Award-winning educator Sally Broughton will teach a Project Citizen workshop for interested educators and community members in Bozeman at Monforton School on January 22-23.  The workshop is free of charge.  Project Citizen is a K-12 curricular program that promotes competent and responsible participation in state and local government.  It helps young people learn how to monitor and influence public policy.  In the process, they develop support for democratic values and principals, tolerance, and feelings of political efficacy.  Students find an issue in their community that can be corrected with public policy, identify the responsible agency, create several alternative solutions, select the best policy, and develop an action plan to ennact the needed legislation.  Service learning activities are the natural next steps.  This workshop is ideal for teachers of social studies, service learning, gifted programs, science, and afterschool programs. A classroom set of books will be provided at appropriate grade level for each participant, funded by a grant from The Center for Civic Education.  The workshop will begin at 2 p.m. on January 22 and end at noon on January 23.  For more information, please contact Hopa Mountain at (406) 586-2455or email info@hopamountain.org. 

2009 Youth Leadership Programs

Junior high and high school students are invited to participate in Hopa Mountain’s youth leadership programs in Bozeman and Livingston. Organized by Hopa Mountain and LINKS for Learning, these teen programs start with weeklong summer camps and continue throughout the school year with weekly meetings, outdoor adventures and community service projects.

The youth participants support local community organizations while preparing to become contributing members of their families, peer groups, and communities.  This year, there is a special emphasis on college access and preparation.  Gallatin County youth meet in Bozeman on Saturdays from 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at the Hopa Mountain office, 234 E. Babcock.  Park County youth meet on Wednesdays from 4 - 5:30 p.m. at the Livingston Public Library.  Meetings include planning time for projects, youth mentoring, and time to socialize and build friendships. 

The youth leadership programs are designed to provide opportunities for all youth to gain valuable life skills to use in service to others. They are made possible with support from the O. P. and W.E. Edwards Foundation, The Treacy Company, the Beim Foundation, the Gilhousen Family Foundation and the Bozeman Community Foundation. For more information, please contact Jamie Diehl at (406) 586-2455 or jamiekdiehl@gmail.com. More information can be found on our blog.

Networking

Hopa Mountain facilitates regional networks of rural and tribal citizen leaders along with forums to exchange ideas, collaborate on projects and offer one another support.

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