COVER
STORY
Helping
Ourselves to Health: Youth Lead Wellness Villages in California
Roni Cleland, Fran Jemmott, Fatima Angeles
Revitalizing communities. Participating in program evaluation.
Acting as assets and role models. These are a few of the many
ways young people participate in "wellness villages":
a unique CYD model in which youth, in partnership with adults,
are empowered to improve the health of their communities.
FEATURES
Building
a Healthy Community: A Student's Perspective
Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman's ideal community is one where health is the
number one priority, where people have the knowledge to make competent
choices, and where age is not a barrier. Our 16-year-old author
describes her vision of how such a community can become a reality.
Youth Citizen Action: Creating a Democratic Exchange on Youth
and Citizenship
Nicholas Longo, Suk Rhee
How do we define citizenship? How can adults promote meaningful
youth participation in our civic life? This article discusses
the need for public dialogue around these issues, and how three
youth organizations have taken on this challenge.
Understanding the Health Care Needs of Homeless
Youth
Amy M. Taylor, Jean Hochron
An estimated
1.6 million youth are homeless each year in the U.S. This article
discusses the health and social service needs of these young people,
and the importance of involving homeless youth in the decisions
that affect their lives.
Reaching Young Women With Their Own Voices
Kathy McCarty
The DHHS Office for Women's Health is committed to addressing
the unique concerns, challenges, and needs of adolescent women.
This article highlights several OWH initiatives that encourage
young women to make healthy choices.
Walking Within the Medicine Wheel: Healing,
Health, and the Spirit
Melbourne Muise
The CYD Framework teaches us to nurture and value the spirit.
Mi'kMaq author Mel Muise expands the definition of health in his
description of the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical
aspects of our nature.
Research and Practice: Mapping the Journeys
Barry M. Kibel
CYD initiatives
whose success depends on the full participation of their clients
often have a difficult time providing adequate assessments. As
described in this offering, the Journey Mapping methodology can
help overcome this shortfall.
DEPARTMENTS
Notes
from the Editor
The CYD Elixir
John P. Terry, Ph.D.
CYD
Forum
Lowering the Voting Age
Patty Pforte, Caleb Vogel, Max Prum, Jesse
Baer
CYD Management Zone
Evaluation as a Management and Learning
Tool:
Identifying and Measuring CYD Outcomes
Lisa A. LaCava
Policy
Children's Health Insurance
Miriam Wright Edelman
International Insights on Youth and Communities
Youth Participation: Facing the Hard Questions
The Forum Forum for Youth Investment
(formerly IYF-US)
Bookshelf
Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction
in a Cynical Time
By Paul Rogat Loeb
