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Developing Youth Leaders and Equipping them with Skills to Change the World
Josh Prudowsky Mikva Challenge
April 6-8, 2014 San Francisco, CA
Annual Conference on Youth + Tech + Health
Mikva Challenge
Ac$on Civics
Youth Voice
Youth Exper$se Learn
by Doing
Reflec$on
Mikva Challenge
Learn by
Doing
Youth Voice
Youth Exper$se
Reflec$on
Policymaking
Classroom Ac$vism
Elec$ons In Ac$on
Want to be Twitter Famous? Below are examples of different categories of ‘Tweets’ Informative Ex: New Article on availability of #condoms in #Chicago public schools. Spoiler: only 1 in 20 schools have them. http://bit.ly/example
Provocative Ex: Sometimes it seems like #CPS students might make better leaders than our school board.
Open-‐Ended Ex: We’re building a #healthmovement. #Chicago, What do you do to get healthy?
Conversational Ex: Hey @maryschmich, thanks for covering student experience in Chicago. Have you seen what some youth at Fenger High School are doing to make their school healthier?
TEEN HEALTH COUNCIL
• Teen Health Council: 20 high school youth from across Chicago
• Health Activism Projects: 60 projects and schools over the last 3 years – Topics: Physical Activity, Nutrition, Healthy Relationships,
Sexual and Mental Health – Youth Health Summit: Teen Health Council train Health
Activists at Summit
Teen Health Council and Health Activism Projects
Health Activism Projects
130 Chicago youth explore activism strategies and digital tools to: • Increase awareness and understanding
of critical issues • Develop digital and media creation
skills • Build youth-inspired policy solutions • Develop advocacy campaigns
Youth Change-Maker Summers
• 7 weeks • Research Question • Each week different health topic • Research Action Groups: Synthesize what they have
learned: 1. Root Causes 2. Public Health Data 3. Tell a story 4. School-Based Health Solutions 5. Choose health apps and websites
• End of summer present findings to Commissioner of Public Health
Teen Health Council Process
Links Sexual Health: http://prezi.com/52p4yqcd5mmu/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share Nutrition and Physical Activity: http://prezi.com/52p4yqcd5mmu/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
Weekly Group Prezis
Policy Analysis
Research
Memes
Examples
• Apps and websites • White Papers • School Health Solution Toolkit • Expunge.io • Meetings with Decision Makers
Outcomes of the Summer
BEYOUMEDIA.ORG
EXAMPLE: hBp://beyoumedia.org/2014/02/18/shhh/
hBp://www.expunge.io/
QUESTIONS?
Josh Prudowsky [email protected]
@prudowsky OR @healthsavants