National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Project

Grizzly Youth Academy

California

Take a Chance, Accept the ChalleNGe and Receive the Rewards. We are here to give you a "second chance".

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Now accepting Student Applications for Grizzly Youth Academy in San Luis Obispo. 

California has two unique Academies.   Sunburst Youth Academy in Los Alamitos, and Grizzly Youth Academy in San Luis Obispo.  If you live in Ventura County and north, you must apply at Grizzly Youth Academy.   If you live Los Angeles County or South, you must apply at Sunburst Youth Academy.  

For Sunburst Youth Academy: www.sunburstyouthacademy.org   and their phone number is
1-877-463-1921

  For Grizzly Youth Academy, read on.... 

 This incredible program fills up very quickly.   We are now taking applications.   Get your application for Grizzly Youth Academy in ASAP, but it must be complete.   To apply, download the student and mentor applications and when your packet is completed, mail or send to one of the addresses on the cover page. Click on the "Tours" link in the upper left hand of this page to see the dates of our tours.   If you live within a 3 hour radius of San Luis Obispo, we require that you attend at tour to be considered for acceptance to Grizzly Youth Academy.

FOR GRIZZLY YOUTH ACADEMY   You may download the student application.  You will also need to download a Mentor Application.  We have also included lots of information below to help you chose the right mentor..........

 Welcome to ChalleNGe mentoring!  We are providing information about mentoring to youth who are interested in ChalleNGe and to their parents and potential mentors.

  

 

Mentors Make The Difference:

Find out how mentoring supports the goals of ChalleNGe through the real-life stories of cadets experiencing the program, staff supporting the cadets, and experts in the field of mentoring.

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Nominating Your Mentor: A Step-by-Step Guide

This self-paced tutorial takes the worry out of identifying and asking someone to be your mentor.

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Fact Sheet for Future Mentors

Once you have identified someone you think you want to ask to be your mentor, use this fact sheet to help explain Challenge mentoring.

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