Stepping Forward for Community Health: Young People Speak Out on Moving More, Eating Better, and Creating Change

摘要

Young people should participate in school and community health decisions that affect their lives. They should participate because they are experts on their own experience in schools and communities, and their ideas can contribute to better decisions by those who provide programs and services. They should do so because it is their right, in accordance with the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child. We are a group of young people and adult allies who share this purpose and who work together through Generation With Promise (GWP), a program which works to empower young people in the middle schools of under-served, urban areas of Michigan. This article reports on this work, and its expression in the voices of youth themselves.