Announcement from NAYA Board Chair Eddie Sherman: It is my great pleasure to announce that the NAYA Family Center’s Board of Directors has appointed Paul Lumley as our new Executive Director. After conducting a thorough national search, our hiring committee selected Paul because of his successful professional career, his extensive experience working with American IndianView Article >
Dear Community partners, friends, and families we serve, Despite the continued misinformation being circulated by a local “news” publication, NAYA stands committed to the development of the Generations Early Learning Academy in order to meet the growing need of early childhood educational opportunities for Portland’s most vulnerable children. As part of our long-term strategy toView Article >
Water is life. It carries our dreams. It cleanses our souls. The water is blessing us. – Frank Alby, lnupiat, Elder and NAYA Canoe Journey spiritual helper. Beginning in 2013, a group of NAYA Elders began meeting to develop and plan ways to implement the NAYA Family Canoe Journey. Our Mission is to honorView Article >
The Early College Academy (ECA) is filled with students that come from diverse backgrounds and experiences. What they all share is a commonality that teaching culture is not a singular conception, nor is it something easy to explain. 10th grade student Paulina Gutierrez, Inupiaq/Puerto Rican, has excelled in her Art for Social Change class inView Article >
Dear Community partners, friends, and families that we serve. I am writing to let you know that the Willamette Week has chosen to publish an article about a disgruntled former employee of NAYA Family Center who voluntarily resigned her employment and, unfortunately, elected to bring a lawsuit against NAYA. First let me say that weView Article >
York in Portland: A New Perspective on Lewis & Clark and the Corps of Discovery NAYA and the Rebuilding Center warmly welcome you to attend one of two incredible performances of the play York happening on March 12th and 13th at Jefferson High School. In a powerful, one-man performance, David Casteal plays the character York as “a whirlwind, a forceView Article >
Today is my last day as a NAYA Family Center employee, but not as a member of our community. I am so blessed to have my professional and cultural journey shaped by such a wonderful organization. I was introduced to NAYA in my early 20s when it was still located on N. Mississippi Ave. IView Article >
Multnomah County released information about changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This will only affect ABLE-BODIED ADULTS WITHOUT DEPENDENTS. This will not impact many current participants, but we want to make sure you are informed of the new changes and updates. See the announcement from Multnomah County’s Department of Human Services for detailedView Article >
Dear friends, From the first time I connected with NAYA in 2002, I knew I had found something special. The holidays always bring up fond memories of sitting around a big table and wrapping gifts in the basement of our old building on the corner of North Mississippi and Shaver, loading the presents into theView Article >
Early College Academy (ECA) students stood proudly in front of 550 guests at the NAYA Gala to perform their group performance of Reclaiming Our Voices. Students were chosen for the performance through their involvement with NAYA’s youth advocacy program. Relationships with students and their advocates helped develop conversations around identity, voice, and poetry. At first,View Article >