Ten Year DVYC Anniversary

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Across
  1. 5. DVYC and DRCC needs ___________ to continue.
  2. 6. The EPA program responsible for cleaning up some of the nation's most contaminated sites
  3. 10. These impacts show how factors like poverty, poor health, and long unaddressed pollution can combine to make health impacts worse in the long run. Washington’s HEAL Act references a map that charts these impacts for environmental justice assessments
  4. 11. The organization that established the Youth Corps
  5. 13. ____________ justice addresses the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low-income and marginalized communities around the world.
  6. 15. Approximately 1,500 _______________ have been a part of DVYC.
  7. 16. Type of justice that addresses inequalities based on location and status
  8. 18. Price to join DVYC
  9. 19. Type of project youth are involved in to improve local environments
  10. 21. The DVYC cohort that a youth is placed in first when they join DVYC
Down
  1. 1. Current Coordinator of DVYC
  2. 2. 2014 for DVYC
  3. 3. The local river that youth engage with in their projects that was declared a superfund site in 2001
  4. 4. First Coordinator of DVYC
  5. 7. Duwamish Valley Youth Corps
  6. 8. This act addresses environmental injustice and DVYC have supported it. It was passed by the Washington State Legislature in 2021
  7. 9. Elected official that DVYC have met with.
  8. 10. First Director of DVYC
  9. 12. Approximately 2000 of these have been introduced to the Valley by the DVYC
  10. 14. The NEWBEAS Cohort is named after Carmen Martinez’s _________ Bea. A youth is first placed in this cohort when they first join DVYC.
  11. 17. A type of garden that DVYC has planted that filters water from roofs, driveways, and streets and can help improve water quality, reduce runoff, and provide food and shelter for wildlife
  12. 20. The type of plants that DVYC collected and studied for 25 heavy metals