The 2010 Indigenous Soccer Cup
SYS will coordinate the 2010 4th Annual Indigenous Soccer Cup (ISC) in Santa Fe, NM, July 20-24, 2010 at Santa Fe Indian School. More that 300 Native youth soccer players from New Mexico, the Southwest, and North America will join in a celebration of American Indian culture, wellness, youth leadership and sport. ISC participants will come from across New Mexico and North America--from urban areas, reservations, the Four Corners region, and First Nations communities of Canada. The ISC serves Native youth, ages 10-19 years old.

 Native American Community Academy Conservation Corps (NACACC)
In 2008 SYS and NACA collaborated with the New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps, Tree New Mexico and Albuquerque Open Space to create a healthy working and learning environment for its students. Along with an outdoor classroom and firsthand experience planting trees participants learn employment skills, work ethic, discipline and gain self-esteem.
2010 NACACC will consist of 28 core members, 2 core leaders and 6 supervisor. NACACC participants work after school and through the summer to accomplish all their goals of making New Mexico beautiful.

 The 2010 Native American Youth Advisory Group (YAG) Project
SYS facilitates a collaborative project with the NM Department of Health, Office of School and Adolescent Health (OSAH), the NM Alliance for School-Based Health Care (NMASBHC), and Native American communities in New Mexico that partner with SYS positive youth development programming. This unique collaboration is developing Native American Youth Advisory Groups (YAG) to facilitate peer trainings in youth resiliency, including prevention of violence, teen-suicide, teen-pregnancy, drug & alcohol abuse; the trainings include youth leadership and peer-to-peer mentoring. The YAG trainings are developed from the culturally-based Native H.O.P.E. (Helping Our People Endure) Curriculum developed by the Native Wellness Institute (Portland Oregon), and recognized as a “best practice” by the New Mexico Department of Health, Office of School & Adolescent Health.”

 The Native American Soccer Project (NASP)
NASP includes the following initiatives, all three of which also provides leverage and community support for the Indigenous Soccer Cup.

• Native American Soccer Start (NASS): in-direct coaching education, equipment, and facilitate support provided by SYS for 600 children/youth, ages 5-13, in 20 tribal communities in 2007-2008.
• The Native American Soccer Coaches Committee (NASCC): a national committee sponsored by by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) to provide coaching education, networking, & community outreach support on a national level; certified over 100 members in 2008.
• SYS Summer Soccer Camps: youth soccer day-camps partnering with 14 communities and 800 children & youth, ages 5-19, in 2008.