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Healthy Families, Healthy Futures

MILPA supports the livelihood of those seeking career opportunities, especially by guiding young people transitioning into adulthood, attending universities, or wanting success.

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Support our Work by Donating Today

Donations support our advocacy and work in the communities we serve.

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​Mess Around and Find Out

We identify the best, brightest, and dopest of our communities while putting them up on game via an orientation, analysis, and lifestyle to shape the future. 

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Future Makers

  • To enhance cultural resilience and connection to land, sea and air - by providing young humans with opportunities to engage in storytelling, workshops, and guided outdoor activities that foster an understanding of our spiritual relationship to land, sea and air, based on ancestral wisdom and environmental identity 

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  • Passes on cultural knowledge, wisdom, and traditions as a praxis for building the intergenerational leadership and well-being of youth and young adults.

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Let's Shape the Future, Together

Have questions about our programs? Want to bring MILPA's approach to your organization? Looking to support young leaders in your community?

Have Drop us a line—we're here to listen, collaborate, and build.

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Cultural Rites
of Passage

MILPA uses evidence-based approaches to support youth and young adults as they transition through adulthood.

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Joven Noble

Palabra: Staying
Close to the Fire

Joven Noble is a youth rites of passage curriculum focused on rites of passage, palabra, platica, dichos, and what it means to be a healthy young man.

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Xinaxchtli

Braiding who we are con Las Enseñanza de Nuestras Mamás y Abuelitas

Xinachtli is a Rites of Passage curriculum rooted in healing and Indigenous practices that focus on platicas on self-confidence, resilience, and leadership and values

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Cara Y CorazoN

In Ixtli y Yolot: Raising Our Young Ones with Love

A 10-week la Cultura Cura curriculum focused on supporting parents or families through a cultural Indigenous lens to support their children.

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Future Building

Cultural Exchanges

Hosts community gatherings that center cultural connection, ceremony, and wellness as tools for collective resilience.

As the work never stops, there will always be opportunities to create space and support the well-being and professional growth of our gente in the Movimiento. Stay tuned for information, or check out the NGF website for more information.

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