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Youth Development

Youth Development

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Youth development projects (YDPs) are student-led projects or activities that engage youth leaders to take active roles in tobacco prevention with their peers. Students participating in youth development projects will develop critical thinking, communication, creativity, and collaboration skills as they promote healthy choices. ​ Campus-wide prevention activities promote and education students will the skills and knowledge to avoid tobacco use to all students on campus. These activities can be led by school staff, teachers, or students. Each school is required to complete one campus-wide prevention activity and one youth development project annually.

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Music Notes

Music Notes was started by a middle and high school teacher team, specializing in creating original, educational hip-hop songs and guiding students through the song creation process. Their Songwriting Program is designed to empower youth to create and share anti-tobacco messages with their peers. Visit the website for sample videos of anti-tobacco and anti-vape songs performed by Music Notes.​

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Royer Studios

Royer Studios is an award-winning education and entertainment corporation with over 30 years of technical and creative experience in film, video, and animation production. Royer Studios is committed to youth empowerment through media arts, engaging young people in experiential se​rvice-learning projects and programs that involve animation and video production, audio production, and graphic design.

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Mikva Challenge

Mikva Challenge created Voice, Power, and Action, a curriculum that aims to develop youth leaders through cultivating activism skills. Mikva Challenge also developed Project Soapbox for leadership skill-building and prompts youth leaders to speak out to their peers and neighborhood leaders on their issues and provide their own vision for community improvement.

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Partnerships

California Friday Night Live

The California Friday Night Live Partnership works toward positive and healthy youth development through engaging youth as active leaders and resources in their communities. Their primary goal is to form youth-adult partnerships with young people, to provide programs rich in opportunities and support.

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California Youth Advocacy Network

The California Youth Advocacy Network (CYAN) changes the tobacco use culture in California’s schools, colleges and universities, and other youth and young adult communities by providing knowledge, skills, and tools to create local change for healthier communities. They host numerous resources on ways to engage youth, information about training, and their annual youth advocacy conference on their website.

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