WHATS YOUTH GOT TO DO WITH IT: Strategies for Prevention

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WHATS YOUTH GOT TO DO WITH ITStrategies for
Prevention

• Healthy Youth-Healthy Communities (HY-HC)
• A program of the Jewish Community Health
  Awareness Initiative
• Jewish Family Childrens Service Of
  Minneapolis
• Jewish Family Services of St. Paul

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Development of HY-HC

• Jewish Community Health Awareness Initiative
  (J-CHAI)
• To work collaboratively with agencies
  synagogues to identify needs and coordinate
  services and resources to address those needs.
  In addition, J-CHAI is intended to be a program
  that identifies and responds to current or
  emerging health and well being issues facing the
  Twin Cities Jewish community.

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• The mission of HY-HC is to raise awareness and
  build skills among youth and families that
  promote health and reduce harm, resulting in a
  healthier Jewish community.
• Programs for youth
• Programs for staff
• Advisory committee
• Youth advisory board
• Community collaborations

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Integrating HY-HC into existing agency programs
services.

• Family Life Education
• Counseling
• Big Brother/Big Sister
• Intake Information Resource Center
• Staff provide referrals to one another and work
  together to plan programs.

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Collaborations Partnerships

• Jewish
• Synagogues
• Hillel
• Jewish Day Schools
• Jewish camps
• Jewish Recovery Network
• National Council of Jewish Women

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• Secular
• PEASE Academy (Peers Enjoying a Sober Education)
  local sober high school
• The Aurora Center provides advocacy education
  on relationship violence, sexual assault and
  stalking for University of MN students
• Hopkins One Voice community coalition
  addressing under age drinking substance abuse
• Depot Coffee House local coffee house run by
  high school students

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• Networking Outreach Methods
• University of MN student organizations
  sororities
• Rock n Reduce a HY-HC sponsored event
• Local High School Peer leadership groups
• Facebook and other social networking sites

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Interns and Advisory Boards

• College volunteer interns
• Student Advisory Board
• High School volunteer interns
• Nurturing future leaders keeps a pulse on the
  youth and youth participants relate to program
  facilitators
• HY-HC Advisory committee
• Conference planning committee
• Initial program development

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Programs for Youth Young Adults

• Pre-adolescence
• Rosh Hodesh
• Adolescence
• Substance abuse addiction depression suicide
  prevention teen
• relationship abuse healthy relationships
  eating disorders body
• Image stress, anxiety expectations internet
  safety bullying peer pressure and others upon
  request
• College students
• Hillel programming sororities domestic abuse
  awareness month sexual assault awareness month
  activities

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Programming Ideas

• Sneaky Learning
• Different Modalities
• Mini-Program
• Candyland
• Jeopardy
• Scenarios
• Take home cards

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For Staff

• Professional conferences
• Staff Trainings on HY-HC topics
• Partnerships provide for various learning
  opportunities for agency staff

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Strengths

• Captive audience- going to the youth
• Youth focused
• Interactive
• Community partnerships
• Responding to Jewish community needs
• Collaboration with experts
• Coed and girls only programming
• Collaboration with clergy educational directors
  to meet the diverse needs within our own
  community
• Integrate pop culture Jewish life
• Allows social service agencies to be proactive
• Intervention
• Community based
• HY-HC specialist, college interns and high school
  advisory board

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Challenges

• Student Advisory Board
• Various agendas represented on advisory board
  individual family issues
• Boys only programming
• Greater need than availability
• Summer programming
• Reaching those who dont want to be reached
• Funding

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• Questions?
• Betsy Sitkoff
• Jewish Community Health Awareness Initiative
  Program Manager
• [phone]
• bsitkoff_at_jfcsmpls.org
• Carly Stein
• Healthy Youth-Healthy Communities Specialist
• [phone]
• cstein_at_jfcsmpls.org