What You'll Learn
We've tailor made an 11-session program for teen leaders like you!
Community Resilience
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Define social drivers of health, community resilience, disaster preparedness, and health justice.
Racial Justice
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Examine historical and present-day racist traumas and their connection to health outcomes.
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Learn from local and national partners about building coalitions for racial justice.
COVID-19 and Disability Justice
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Examine the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated health disparities, especially for children.
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Learn from families of patients with disabilities and complex medical needs and reflect upon how different individuals, families, and communities experienced the COVID-19 pandemic.
Immigrant and Refugee Health
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Explore the root causes of migration.
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Understanding the link between immigration and physical/mental health outcomes.
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Learn from mutual aid and health services organizations in the D.C area.
Food Justice
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Explore how you interact with the food system.
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Learn about the pandemic's impact on food insecurity.
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Learn from local front-line agencies working to achieve food justice.
Environmental and Housing Justice
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Connect the dots between environmental health and physical/emotional health.
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Learn about the work of local environmental and housing justice organizations.
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Explore how to make your community resilient to different environmental disasters.
Mental Health
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Identify barriers and solutions to mental health care accessibility.
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Explore child and adolescent mental health outcomes and services.
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Define self-care and identify personal resilience factors.
Systemic Racism
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Examine historical and present-day racist traumas and their connection to health outcomes.
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Learn from local and/or national partners about building coalitions for racial justice.
Harm Reduction
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Understand the bio-psycho-social model of addiction.
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Explore the war on drugs and define harm reduction while learning about adolescent health outcomes related to the opioid epidemic.
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Participate in Naloxone training and practice public health communication skills.
Sexual and Reproductive Justice
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Learn about sexual and reproductive justice.
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Learn about adolescent health outcomes, rights, and resources.
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Interact with community partners while learning about sexual and reproductive health, healthy relationships, and consent.
Graduation Day
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Celebrate your growth and achievements alongside our institutional and community stakeholders
Violence Prevention
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Explore the root causes of community violence.
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Learn from neighborhood and hospital-based violence intervention programs.
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Participate in Stop the Bleed and Bystander CPR training.