Northwest Youth Corp (NYC) American Sign Language (ASL) Program

To provide the work experience to deaf and hard of hearing youth so that they would have the same enriching experience as their peers. This program has been fully successful in supporting accessible communication, which requires hiring professional interpreters as crew leaders and providing ASL interpretation at orientation, graduation, program presentations, question and answer sessions, skills trainings, safety trainings, recreation and games, weekend sites and general group interactions. This has worked extremely well for delivering this experience to a limited number of youth each year.