The American Indian
Recruitment Programs
Serving the Southern California American Indian Community for over 31 years
Thank you for your support and friendship...
AIR SUMMER 2025 / Starting June 23rd
AIR Programs proudly announces our AIR Summer project starting on June 23, 2025. We have been offering our AIR Summer programming free to our Native Communities for over 30 years and look forward to continuing this upcoming summer! This year we will introduce concepts of environmental stewardship with STEM based ideals and how this integrates with our developing tribal communities. Most of all, we look forward in making new friends and continuing our old friendships. See you this summer!!!
May 1st
Tribal Law Day Event
Complete!
Thank you for the great turn out for our 3rd Annual Law Day event. Our discussion on the US Constitution and where Federal Indian Law and Tribal Laws merge in created a great discussion for our Native Youth.
Thank you to UCSD Extension for the hosting and thank you to both San Diego American Indian Health Center for their mini-workshop and the UCSD Intertribal Resource Center for their workshop on admissions. Most of all thank you to the participants from Valley Center and Bonsall for coming down!
AIR Annual Awards and Fundraising Banquet ~ 10/30
AIR Summer '19
About AIR Programs
Our mission is to promote higher education among the Native youth community.
Created in 1993, the AIR Program has continuously served our San Diego American Indian community and Native youth through our after-school mentoring programs. In 2002, the AIR program was incorporated as a non-profit organization in response to low educational attainment among our Native youth. We have developed our mission as "the promotion and success of American Indians within education."
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The AIR program uses a “Teaching through Culture” model where Native youth learn about their culture and issues affecting their tribal communities. They contemplate the root causes and deliberate possible solutions with the help of college mentors (native and non-native) on many of these issues.