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Youth Alliance for a Healthier Alaska (YAHA)

Accepting Applications for the 2012-2013 School Year! Applications due May 25th, 2012 at 5pm!

• Download the YAHA Application

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 2010-2011school year

• Provided design and programmatic feedback for to following agencies: Careline Alaska
• The State of Alaska’s Choose Respect Campaign
• UAA Department of Health Sciences, Nursing Program: (hand washing modules)
• Alaska network on Domestic Violence on Sexual Assault: Stand up Speak up Campaign.

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

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.