Youth Development

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သးစၢ်တၢ်ဂုၤထီၣ်ပသီထီၣ်ကရၢ

ကိးနံၣ်ဒဲး ကညီကရၢမံၣ်နံၣ်စိထၣ် မၤသကိးတၢ်ဒီးဝ့ၢ်စ့ၣ်ဖီလ်ပဒိၣ်ကၠိ (Saint Paul Public Schools) ဒ်သိးကမၤ ဂ့ၤထီၣ်အါထီၣ်ပှၤကညီဖိ ဒီးပှၤဘၣ်ကီဘၣ်ခဲကၠိဖိအဂုၤအဂၤခဲလၢာ်အဂၤ (၁၅၀) အတၢ်ဖံးလိမၤဒိးအဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ကညီကရၢမံၣ်နံၣ်စိထၣ်အပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိဘၣ်ဃးသးစၢ်တၢ်ဂုၤထီၣ်ပသီထီၣ်တဖၣ် မၤသကိးတၢ်ဘူးဘူးတံၢ်တံၢ်ဒီး ကၠိ သရၣ်/မုၣ် သ့ၣ်တဖၣ် လၢတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်မၤစၢၤလၢတၢ်ဖံးလိမၤဒိးအပူၤ, တၢ်မၤစၢၤလၢ နီၢ်ခိဒီးနီၢ်သးအတၢ်ရ့လိာ်ဘၣ်ထွဲလၢအမုာ်ဝဲ, ဒီးမိၢ်ပၢ်အတၢ်ရ့လိာ်ဘၣ်ထွဲဆူတီၤခၢၣ်သးဒီး တီၤထီကၠိဖိသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ကညီကရၢမံၣ်နံၣ်စိထၣ် ဟ့ၣ်စ့ၢ်ကိးတၢ်သိၣ်လိ ဘၣ်ဃး တၢ်သ့ကဲခိၣ်ကဲနၢ်အတၢ်မၤလိ, ဆူၣ်ချ့ပီညါတၢ်မၤလိတဖၣ်, ဒီးတၢ်ဟူးတၢ်ဂဲၤဘၣ်ဃး တၢ်ဆဲးတၢ်လၤ လၢပှၤသူၣ်ဘီၣ်သးစၢ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်လၢ တၢ်မၤအီၤဟါခီကၠိပျၢ်ဝံၤအဆၢကတီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်လၢခံကတၢၢ်တမံၤမ့ၢ်ဝဲ ကညီကရၢမံၣ်နံၣ်စိထၣ် ဟ့ၣ်နီၤလီၤတၢ်ကိၢ်ခါကတီၢ်တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤဒီးသးစၢ်ဒီးအပှၤဟ့ၣ်ကူးဟ့ၣ်ဖးတၢ်အတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ (youth mentorship program) လၢပှၤကၠိဖိသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.

၂၀၁၆-၂၀၁၇ တၢ်မၤလိနံၣ်အကတီၢ် ကညီကရၢမံၣ်နံၣ်စိထၣ် မၤသကိးတၢ်ဒီးကၠိယဲၢ်ဖျၢၣ်လၢအမ့ၢ်ဝဲ Battle Creek Middle School, Harding High School, Humboldt High School, LEAP High School and Washington Technology Magnet School သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.

ကျိၣ်စ့တၢ်မၤလၢတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤအံၤအဂီၢ်ဟဲခီဖျိလၢ တၢ်ဆီလီၤပာ်လီၤလီၢ်အိၣ်ဆိးတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤဝဲၤဒၢးဖဲမံၣ်နံၣ်စိထၣ် ပှၤဂ့ၢ်ဝီအဝဲၤကျိၤ (Resettlement Programs Office of the Minnesota Department of Human Services) န့ၣ်လီၤ.

Students in KOM’s after-school Karen club at Washington Tech Magnet School recognize Karen Revolution Day in January, 2024.

KOM partners with Saint Paul Public Schools to increase student learning of Karen and other refugee and immigrant students every year.

KOM teaches leadership training, health education, and cultural activities to youth during the afterschool program. As an extension of the afterschool programming, KOM also offers summer programming and a youth mentorship program for students. During the 2024-2025 school year, KOM is working in two schools: Washington Technology Magnet School and Como High School.

KOM also leads a Youth Career Pathways program called What’s Next, which helps middle and high school age youth explore career paths.

Contact Arash Yousufi or Mular Lerpwel to learn about KOM’s youth programs and services.

Funded by the Mardag Foundation and the Resettlement Programs Office of the Minnesota Department of Human Services.

Contact

Arash Yousufi

Program Director – Youth & New Arrival Services

ayousufi@mnkaren.org

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Contact Arash Yousufi for more info.

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