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Youth Partnership for Health
Ideas and input from youth are vital to the success of any program targeting youth. When programs targeting youth do not involve them in the development and decision-making process, they risk developing strategies that don’t work and waste valuable resources. Youth play important roles in all aspects of program development and implementation from program design to evaluation of effectiveness. In fact, the roles that young people play are as varied as the roles of adults. They are limited only by the willingness of participants to engage young voices in important issues. Research supports the value of youth involvement, not just for the youth, but for adults and organizations too. The success of youth involvement efforts is widely recognized, so widely that there are worldwide efforts to engage youth as leaders in policy and program design and delivery.
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Colorado’s Youth Partnership for Health (YPH) is a diverse group of 14-18 year olds from across Colorado, recruited from a variety of schools, local health agencies and community programs such as Rainbow Alley and Project PAVE. They are selected to participate based on their age, geographic location and unique experiences. The youth work directly with adults to help make decisions affecting all youth in Colorado. Every month, the YPH convenes to discuss such issues as teen driving safety and substance use prevention. They then provide open and honest feedback to programs, agencies and organizations developing programs and policies for youth.
Since 2000, the YPH has provided feedback and recommendations to many programs and initiatives that have resulted in policy and practice changes, written articles for Colorado prevention newsletters, presented and served as workshop assistants at statewide conferences, provided technical assistance to various public and private partners and developed an original DVD and guidebook on effective youth-adult partnerships to be distributed nationally.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is committed to YPH and believes young people are experts in youth attitudes, behaviors and culture. It wants to hear directly from young people on how adults can partner better with youth and work together to improve issues that affect their health and safety.
| YPH is looking for young people who represent different backgrounds, experiences and areas of Colorado. If you are aged 14-18 and are interested in shaping Colorado’s future, contact Anne-Marie Braga at anne-marie.braga@state.co.us |
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PSD/CASH/A4
4300 Cherry Creek Drive S.
Denver, CO 80246
Phone 303-692-2941
e-mail: cdphe.pscash@state.co.us
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