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Healthy Way: Wellness In All Youth, Melissa Slone, Frances J. Feltner
Healthy Way: Wellness In All Youth, Melissa Slone, Frances J. Feltner
Center of Excellence in Rural Health Presentations
Healthy WAY encourages student led teams to work collectively on an identified problem, by reviewing local data, trends, and research to develop a strategic plan of action with key stakeholders in their schools and communities.
Community organizations can partner to invest in initiatives like Healthy WAY to restore hope and resilience in our youth. Tips to ensure success include: Organizational support, a staff mentor dedicated to the project for the entire period, partners in the school systems and venues for the students to share their outcomes.
Healthalachia: Rural Appalachian Youth Creating Solutions For Our Future, Frances J. Feltner, Melissa A. Slone, Beth Bowling
Healthalachia: Rural Appalachian Youth Creating Solutions For Our Future, Frances J. Feltner, Melissa A. Slone, Beth Bowling
Center of Excellence in Rural Health Presentations
Kentucky’s Appalachian youth experience high rates of adverse childhood experiences. Opioid abuse, poverty and unemployment dominate our news headlines. Youth are suffering negative impacts of these issues and experiencing disproportionate rates of depression, suicidal thoughts, food insecurities, obesity and lack of physical activity. Overdose deaths and incarceration rates among parents with substance abuse disorders negatively impact family units and contribute to increased homelessness, foster care and kinship care among our youth population.
Healthalachia was developed and piloted as a student-based, youth empowerment initiative that provides competitive mini-grants and research mentors to groups of high schoolers who aim to identify a …