Adolescent Health
Youth Alliance for a Healthier Alaska (YAHA)
Applications for the 2013-2014 School year will be accepted starting from March February 1, 2013 – May 1, 2013.
Please see the list below for YAHA’s progress on youth project advisory and this school year’s community actions plans!
Our mission
The mission of the Youth Alliance for a Healthier Alaska is to advise the Adolescent Health program and other Division of Public Health programs and to create interventions designed at improving the lives of adolescents in Alaska.
Who are we?
We are a group of diverse, energetic teens ages 14-18 from across Alaska. We are interested in health and are enthusiastic about shaping how our state responds to youth issues that we all experience.
What do we do?
We are a group of diverse, energetic teens ages 14-18 from across Alaska. We are interested in health and are enthusiastic about shaping how our state responds to youth issues that we all experience.
- We provide feedback insight and advice to youth serving agencies. We review materials created for teens by youth serving organizations.
- We create interventions designed to improve the lives of adolescents in Alaska.
In the 2009-2010 school year
- Played a role in the creation of Stand up Speak up
- Advised the statewide tobacco program and underage drinking initiative
- Created and judged a “Make Art, Not Babies“ art contest
- Reviewed grant applications
In the 2010-2011 school year
This school year 2011-2012
- Suggestions on youth engagement in the Farm to School Program
- Feedback on the community conversations element of Anchorage United for Youth
- Reviewed Stand up Speak up grant applications
- Embarked on our first community action project: Art of Passage
2012-2013 school year activities
- Participating on the Health Alaskans 2020’s Advisory Committee
- Advised the UAA, Department of Health Science’s Safe Waste Disposal teaching module
- Advised the Birch Center’s Youth Engagement and Awareness Presentation about Relationship Violence
- Advised a Doctorate student about her efforts to create a “teen workbook” for learning human agency
- Community Action Plans in the works
- Stand Up Speak Up mini-grant applications review
Get in touch with us
You can contact us through Jennifer Baker, Adolescent Health Project Coordinator in the Section of Women’s Children’s and Family Health: jennifer.baker@alaska.gov.
State programs should contact Jennifer to book YAHA to review your materials and youth oriented programs.