Developing youth leadership to improve the health and wellness of their communities and schools via digital and social activism. Presented by Josh Prudowski at YTH Live 2014 workshop "Mikva Challenge."

1. Developing Youth Leaders and Equipping
them with Skills to Change the World
Josh Prudowsky
Mikva Challenge
April 6-8, 2014
San Francisco, CA
Annual Conference on Youth + Tech + Health

2. Mikva Challenge

3. Ac$on
Civics
Youth
Voice
Youth
Exper$se
Learn
by
Doing
Reflec$on

4. Mikva
Challenge
Learn
by
Doing
Youth
Voice
Youth
Exper$se
Reflec$on
Policymaking
Classroom
Ac$vism
Elec$ons
In
Ac$on

5. Want to be Twitter Famous?
Below
are
examples
of
different
categories
of
‘Tweets’
Informative
Ex:
New
Article
on
availability
of
#condoms
in
#Chicago
public
schools.
Spoiler:
only
1
in
20
schools
have
them.
http://bit.ly/example
Provocative
Ex:
Sometimes
it
seems
like
#CPS
students
might
make
better
leaders
than
our
school
board.
Open-­‐Ended
Ex:
We’re
building
a
#healthmovement.
#Chicago,
What
do
you
do
to
get
healthy?
Conversational
Ex:
Hey
@maryschmich,
thanks
for
covering
student
experience
in
Chicago.
Have
you
seen
what
some
youth
at
Fenger
High
School
are
doing
to
make
their
school
healthier?

6. TEEN HEALTH COUNCIL

7. • Teen Health Council: 20 high school youth from across
Chicago
• Health Activism Projects: 60 projects and schools over
the last 3 years
– Topics: Physical Activity, Nutrition, Healthy Relationships,
Sexual and Mental Health
– Youth Health Summit: Teen Health Council train Health
Activists at Summit
Teen Health Council and
Health Activism Projects

8. Health Activism Projects

9. 130 Chicago youth explore activism
strategies and digital tools to:
• Increase awareness and understanding
of critical issues
• Develop digital and media creation
skills
• Build youth-inspired policy solutions
• Develop advocacy campaigns
Youth Change-Maker Summers

10. • 7 weeks
• Research Question
• Each week different health topic
• Research Action Groups: Synthesize what they have
learned:
1. Root Causes
2. Public Health Data
3. Tell a story
4. School-Based Health Solutions
5. Choose health apps and websites
• End of summer present findings to Commissioner of
Public Health
Teen Health Council Process

11. Links
Sexual Health:
http://prezi.com/52p4yqcd5mmu/?
utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
Nutrition and Physical Activity:
http://prezi.com/52p4yqcd5mmu/?
utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
Weekly Group Prezis

12. Policy
Analysis

13. Research

14. Memes

15. Examples

16. • Apps and websites
• White Papers
• School Health Solution Toolkit
• Expunge.io
• Meetings with Decision Makers
Outcomes of the Summer

18. BEYOUMEDIA.ORG
EXAMPLE:
hBp://beyoumedia.org/2014/02/18/shhh/

19. hBp://www.expunge.io/

20. QUESTIONS?

21. Josh Prudowsky
joshua@mikvachallenge.org
@prudowsky OR @healthsavants