Earth Care's Youth Allies offers a number of youth development, leadership, and organizing programs for young people in northern New Mexico including:

A Youth Action Network that meets monthly to help young people connect to others who are passionate about making a difference and taking leadership in the community. Network meetings are structured to support relationship building as well as deepen participants' awareness, knowledge, skills, and experience in sustainability, social justice, and positive activism & community engagement. The Youth Action Network also connects young people to community engagement opportunities throughout the year including Youth Allies Organizing Projects. We also connect youth to scholarships, youth grant opportunities, support services, and pretty much anything else our youth participants need. This program is open to any young person age 13-20. Anyone can join at any point throughout the year.

An intensive Leadership Training Institute for youth ages 13-19. This training program is for young people who are interested in taking their leadership to the next level through intensive training in cross-cultural relationship building, leadership, social, economic, environmental, and cultural sustainability, and organizing. This program is open to 35 youth per year from Native, Hispano, Immigrant, Anglo, and other diverse backgrounds.

An advanced Organizing Program which delves deeper into the theory and practice of social change. Participants explore their personal areas of passion and develop community improvement projects that utilize their strengths & interests, apply what they've learned, and address key areas of sustainable community development & global justice. See our Projects section to learn about the projects and campaigns included in this year's roster. This program is open to 10 youth per year who have already received training and experience through another Youth Allies Program. Organizers receive intensive mentorship and a stipend for college upon successful completion of the program.

A civic engagement program, The Youth Advisory Board to the Sustainability Commission is a nine-person youth board that works alongside the City of Santa Fe's Mayor appointed Sustainability Commission to implement the Sustainable Santa Fe Plan and take action to reduce our community's carbon footprint.The nine-person youth board engages additional youth in civic engagement trainings and campaigns that address critical community needs focused on sustainable community development.

A student coalition working across all middle and high schools to green the Santa Fe school district and integrate sustainability education into the curriculum. The Eco-Schools Student Coalition is led by one of the Youth Allies Organizers and comprised of one student representative from each of the middle and high schools in Santa Fe. The group works to conduct peer education on sustainability, conduct ongoing eco-school assessments and lead one campaign per year across the district in collaboration with the Sustainability Education Task Force and school board.

Youth Voices for Change is a program in partnership with Youth Media Project and other nonprofits to bring youth voices for sustainability and justice to public discussions and to decision-making tables by connecting youth to key resources such as media training, community and civic engagement opportunities, and gatherings throughout the State.