CODY CAN YOUTH INC

Programs

1. The organization's primary exempt purpose is to encourage children to abstain from the use of illegal drugs. The organization operates programs for its participants, who are required to sign a contract to remain drug free, which contract must be signed by each participating student and his or her parent. The specific objectives and purposes of the organization are: 1. To sponsor and/or host events, activities, programs, and education for participants and the community, which are intended to encourage and promote living drug-free and excelling in life. 2. To provide positive reinforcement to participants for living drug-free and excelling by sponsoring participant-only events. 3. To provide opportunities for participants to engage in volunteer activities in the community and to participate in community activities. 4. To enter into arrangements with community businesses and local organizations to provide rewards and incentives to participants as a means to reinforce participants' decisions to be drug-free and to demonstrate to participants that those decisions are valued by people in the community.

   $36,758 spent
   27% of program spending

2. The organization maintains and harvests a vegetable garden to further the organization's goal of teaching healthy lifestyles to its participants. The organization's participants participate in all aspects of garden maintenance and harvesting are taught food preservation and cooking skills. The garden was moved in 2024 to sunset elementary school, where it started to be used as an "anchor" for monthly leadership development lessons, which are taught to 5th grade students by the organization's high school participants. Goal setting, planning, "controlling the controllables", etc. Are the subjects of these lessons. The board of directors finds that these lessons are working really well and that they provide additional opportunities for positive interaction and engagement between the organization's high school participants and elementary students.

   $5,039 spent
   4% of program spending

3. The organization recognizes that healthy kids come from healthy communities, so it provides tools, education, and activities to support wellness across the entire community, regardless of age, income level, race, or gender. In an ongoing effort to place the decision of students to remain healthy and drug free in the broader context of a healthy lifestyle within a healthy community, the organization continues to expand its community health and wellness programs,including: 1. Creating a strength class for young adults with disabilities. Participants are recent graduates of cody high school who are working to maintain a healthy lifestyle as they segue into either independent living or living with a caregiver. The organization has offered twice weekly exercise classes, which include nutrition and lifestyle education components. 2. The organization is partnering with the wyoming department of health on a community health and wellness initiative - twice weekly strength and balance classes for senior citizens in the cody community funded by the wyoming department of health through december of 2026. The primary goals of this program include developing stronger intergenerational community…

   $93,866 spent
   69% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $135,663.