Colorado
The 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.
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The Youth Partnership for Health
Colorado’s Youth Partnership for Health (YPH), a teen advisory committee for health issues in the state, is nearly ten years old, 25 youth members deep and eleven towns and cities strong. The goal of the YPH is to serve as a sounding board and bring youthful perspectives to all services and programs that impact youth.MORE
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