Youth Development Networks

Network Contact Information

Klamath-Lake YDN (http://ydnk-lake.wetpaint.com/):

• Corey Christensen (AmeriCorps*VISTA)
  541-274-1564 or ydnklamath-lake@co.klamath.or.us
• Debbie Vought (Site Supervisor)
  541-882-3198 or dvought@co.klamath.or.us

Mid-Valley YDN:

• Alisa Glass (AmeriCorps*VISTA)
  503-302-0512 or ydnmid-valley@wesd.org
• Beth Unverzagt (Site Supervisor)
  503-540-4481 or beth.unverzagt@wesd.org

About Youth Development Network

Mentors and OregonASK (www.oregonask.org) have partnered to assist communities throughout the state to build a regional support network of mentoring and after school programs.

An AmeriCorps*VISTA member serves as coordinator for each region’s Youth Development Network (YDN). Network activities will promote the quality and sustainability of programs that serve youth throughout the region by supporting staff and volunteers. The YDN coordinator will work with providers, parents and other youth development advocates to boost regional supports for mentoring and after school programs.  

Each network will convene around a locally-defined agenda, identify resources, offer trainings, and share practice wisdom through the Oregon Mentors Web (resource library and calendar).

Oregon Mentors is sponsoring the three-year project with funding from Meyer Memorial Trust and the Corporation for National and Community Service. Additional support is being provided by the host sites for the project: Citizens for Safe Schools (Klamath Falls), and OregonASK (Salem).

Current networks are in Salem and Klamath Falls with plans to expand to Eugene, Medford and Bend.