Published 24. January 2012 at 4:53 pm -
Youth Empowered Solutions (YES!) is offering four free adult leader trainings for adults across North Carolina working to provide youth with opportunities for active living and healthy eating.
Youth Empowerment 101: Effectively Creating Youth-Adult Partnerships, helps adults prepare to work with youth...
Published 17. January 2012 at 3:48 pm -
By Parrish Ravelli
Team Lead, Access to Health Care
In November and December 2011, YES! brought together groups of adults for two trainings to develop skills and strategies to effectively create youth-adult partnerships.
Youth Empowerment 101 broke down the YES! Youth Empowerment Model and how to incorporate...
Published 17. December 2011 at 11:43 pm -
Dec. 17, 2011 – On a bright Saturday morning, a dozen high school students gathered in a classroom at Marsh Creek Community Center in Raleigh, N.C. to learn about school-based health centers and develop skills around social change and advocacy.
The free 4-hour training was led by five YES! youth...
Published 7. December 2011 at 8:11 pm -
Close your eyes for just a moment. Imagine a world where youth and adults are working alongside each other to improve their communities and themselves. In a YES! world, we are healthy. We advocate for the issues that are important to us. We take part in the decisions that affect our lives. We are INSPIRED!...
Published 21. November 2011 at 7:48 pm -
In 2012, Youth Empowered Solutions will be introducing a new approach to implement its Youth Empowerment Model – the YES! Learning Collaborative. The YES! Learning Collaborative is a series of interactive, cohort trainings to help organizations increase their capacity to achieve goals through an...
Published 8. November 2011 at 9:06 pm -
By Katie Spears
Team Lead, Obesity
October 4, 2011 – “Youth aren’t the future, we’re here right now and we want to be part of the solution,” said Lucy Conroy to 300 adults at the Southern Obesity Summit (SOS) in New Orleans. Conroy, a youth staff member of Youth Empowered Solutions (YES!),...
Published 24. October 2011 at 12:52 pm -
RALEIGH, N.C. – Oct. 24, 2011 – With roughly a third of the state’s youth overweight or obese, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Foundation has invested $855,000 over the next two years in Youth Empowered Solutions (YES!) to expand its obesity prevention and youth advocacy work.
“BCBSNC...
Published 14. May 2011 at 5:47 pm -
More than 125 teens from across the state poured onto the front lawn of the N.C. General Assembly to attend a rally Wednesday aimed at convincing the state lawmakers to preserve the Health and Wellness Trust Fund (HWTF) and its successful TRU (Tobacco. Reality. Unfilitered.) program addressing teen tobacco...
Published 10. May 2011 at 6:08 pm -
By Drew Oswald, Asheville YES! Youth Staff Member
The North Carolina state Senate is voting on a bill that plans to abolish the Health and Wellness Trust Fund. The HWTF is exactly what its name states, funding many programs, including some of the most effective tobacco prevention programs in the state....
Published 29. March 2011 at 8:19 pm -
Picture this: A conference room filled with 24 people involved in a fast-paced discussion about the issues surrounding nutrition and physical activity in Mecklenburg County. Sounds like a group of public health officials, right? Not quite. These are high school students from across the county, interviewing...
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