Youth Advisory Board
Our Mission
To provide a dynamic community setting where teens from
the Los Angeles area can improve their leadership skills, participate
in important decision-making opportunities, and learn about innovative
approaches to adolescent health promotion.
About the Youth Advisory Board
Through active leadership, teens will voice their ideas
and insights about health issues that will help to shape the UCLA/RAND
Center's research agenda and plans. Our goal is to become a model of
how youth, academia, and community-based organizations work together to
address important health issues affecting adolescents and others
locally and nationally.
The Advisory Board:
"Where Teens Learn as Leaders"
The Advisory Board is an exciting chance for teens to
prepare for a life of leadership. As the UCLA/RAND Center plans and
implements new studies, we are sponsoring the Youth Advisory Board to
ensure that teen opinions and perspectives are incorporated into
decision making. The Advisory Board provides teens opportunities:
- To make meaningful decisions about real world research
- To improve leadership skills
- To learn more about physical health issues relevant
to teens
- To improve communication and critical thinking skills
- To improve our understanding of the link between
public health research & real life issues
These opportunities are also strategies to enhance
positive youth development. Similar opportunities for skill-building,
leadership, and efficacy have demonstrated positive outcomes for youth
including the further development of their strengths and self-efficacy
(Gootman and Eccles, 2002). The Advisory Board operates within the same
positive developmental framework.
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