Services List: Adolescent Health and Youth Development Program
The purpose of the Adolescent Health and Youth Development (AHYD) program is to enhance the skills and improve the health status of the Coastal Health Districts’s adolescents. This is accomplished through opportunities and programs developed in collaboration with families, communities, schools and other public and private organizations throughout the district.
AHYD programs and services provide a network of community-based support to help adolescents succeed as they move into adulthood by focusing on the "assets" of individual youth and their families. AHYD-sponsored programs reinforce positive attitudes, healthy behaviors and activities, and reduce risk-taking behaviors, such as violence, substance abuse, poor school performance and sexual activity. The program strives to provide all youth ages 10 – 19 with the skills to be healthy, safe, educated and employable.
What does the AHYD program do?
·Provides population based prevention and public education activities programs, aimed at promoting responsible, healthy lifestyle behaviors and abstinence.
·Uses community partnership and collaboration as the mechanisms for involving parents, youth and others in promoting positive youth development.
WWW Address: http://www.gachd.org/services-list/adolescent_health_and_youth_de.php