Solar Youth Names New Leader
by | May 2, 2022 2:46 pm | Comments (1)
A leading environment-themed youth program in the city, Solar Youth, has named a new executive director, Candace Wright (at left in photo).
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Solar Youth Founder Stepping Down After 22 Years
by | May 28, 2021 3:08 pm | Comments (5)
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Joanne Sciulli and Candace Jones Wright.
Joanne Sciulli, who has run New Haven’s Solar Youth program since founding it 22 years ago, is stepping aside to make way for new leaderhsip.
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Ribbon Cut On New Trail In West Rock Woods
by | Apr 23, 2021 2:42 pm | Comments (2)
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Trailbazer Team uses hedge shears to officially open trail.
Solar Youth’s Trailblazers celebrated Earth Day by cutting the official opening ribbon on a new trail that connects West Rock’s Westville Manor and Rockview developments.
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Solar Youth Blaze Trail In West Rock’s Woods
by | Nov 23, 2020 1:15 pm | Comments (2)
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“Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the unnamed trail,” Deamonte Godley announced to a group of 15 at a trailhead just off Wayfarer Street near the Westville Manor complex.
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Elicker Pressed On Youth
by | Oct 29, 2020 5:09 pm | Comments (8)
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Young people showed up at Justin Elicker’s latest neighborhood meet-the-mayor gathering — and turned the discussion to how the city can help youth.
Nearby Shooting Rattles Solar Youth
by | Mar 13, 2020 2:22 pm | Comments (1)
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Solar Youth’s Candace Wright and Joanne Sciulli at the nonprofit’s Westville Manor headquarters the day after the shooting.
Joanne Sciulli and Candace Wright had planned on talking about COVID-19 precautionary measures at Solar Youth’s all-staff meeting.
They instead ending up dealing with the traumatic fallout from a safety hazard even more immediate than the virus pandemic: a shooting that took place outside of the West Rock nonprofit’s headquarters right as kids were arriving for an after-school program.
Solar Youth Kroons For Dough In Tough Environment
by | May 23, 2016 7:02 am | Comments (0)
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Harrison.
Quintaisja Harrison didn’t know a lot about New Haven’s natural environment — or about nonviolent communication and public speaking — until she was in the third grade, and a budding organization called Solar Youth offered to take her on a field trip to West Rock with a few fourth graders from her school. There, members promised, she could experience some of the the city’s native topography and learn about Connecticut’s food chain.
The trip lasted a few hours. By its end, Harrison was hooked, and became a participant in Solar Youth’s education-based programs.
Fourteen years later, she’s still there, working as a volunteer educator to teach kids like her younger brother the same lessons that so enriched her childhood — and helped her become “a better version of Tae, the version that you see standing here today.”
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West Rock Teens Raise Banners To Combat The Violence
by | Jul 31, 2014 7:53 am | Comments (0)
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Lashae Morrison’s and Queshon McDaniel’s cousin was shot and killed in October, mere feet from the Westville Manor building where they plant flowers and learn about making the world greener.
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Burglars Hit Solar Youth
by | Jul 13, 2011 3:03 pm | Comments (5)
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Sciulli (left) and Levey.
After showing up Wednesday to find her non-profit environmental youth program’s office ransacked, Joanne Sciulli resolved to “send a message to not mess with Solar Youth.”
Citycologists Go Exploring
by | May 13, 2009 5:55 pm | Comments (4)
Note: Fernando Betancourt Jr. attends New Haven’s Sound School. He wrote the following story as part of a school internship program.
On a cool April day, I joined Solar Youth’s Citycology group for a brief hike in the woods. During the hike adult educator Curtis and four other youth interns engaged the Citycology group comprised of 5 – 8 year-old youths in fun activities such as songs, story telling, and listening to animal noises. From walking on the hike with Citycology, I learned that these activities were designed to be more than just fun.
Suburban Appraisals Dumped In W. Rock Woods
by | Feb 16, 2009 12:01 pm | Comments (10)
Usually you can’t tell who dumps trash illegally in the woods by the Westville Manor projects. Last week some teens found a load with an out-of-town company’s name all over it — and details about people’s homes in towns far away.
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Teens’ Videos Reflect Real Life
by | Sep 17, 2007 8:50 am | Comments (0)
Joel Suarez (pictured) told of life as a light-skinned, red-headed Puerto Rican. Another teen told of being molested as a young child, then having two abortions by the time she was 16.