Green Arrow Co-Lab

Green Arrow Co-Lab’s Urban Agriculture and Embodied Stewardship Immersion Training Program is an 18-week program that builds resiliency through an embodied, trauma-informed, joy-centered approach to land, personal growth, and leadership/stewardship. This program serves youth and young adults impacted by the criminal legal system by centering our curriculum on healing practices, agricultural development, job preparedness, and the ability for our participants to become the future program trainers.

With an earth-based program of healing, self-efficacy, and connection to community and nature, we provide a trauma-informed gardening and mindfulness curriculum for justice-involved youth (ages 14-26). Our work was founded to address the underlying issues that prevent many young people from finding stability and positive long term change. Our theory of change seeks to move young people out of trauma responses and dysregulation and into a healthier more aligned emotional state, through teaching and fostering a connection to nature and self.

Green Arrow CoLab’s Citizen Farmers and Healers program is a youth justice solution that supports system-impacted young people through gardening and mindfulness classes. The project uses a curriculum focused on self-awareness, science, and mindfulness skills and activities to connect youth to nature, each other, and their inner desires for future achievement and self-efficacy. We seek to address systemic injustice issues by empowering future innovators and problem solvers through vocational education, therapeutic healing, and self-empowerment.