Exploring the Power
of Youth Leadership in
Creating Conditions for
Health and Equity
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Vinu Ilakkuvan and Katherine Lynch,
Rapporteurs
Roundtable on Population
Health Improvement
Board on Population Health
and Public Health Practice
Health and Medicine Division
Proceedings of a Workshop
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON EXPLORING THE POWER OF YOUTH LEADERSHIP IN CREATING CONDITIONS FOR HEALTH AND EQUITY1
TAMMY CHANG, Associate Professor and Co-Director, National Clinician Scholars Program at the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan School of Medicine
JACQUELINE MARTINEZ GARCEL, Chief Executive Officer, Latino Community Foundation
SHERI JOHNSON, Director of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, Co- Director of the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, and Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health
JASON PURNELL, Vice President, Community Health Improvement, BJC HealthCare
VERONICA TERRIQUEZ, Professor and Director, Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles
JONATHAN TODRES, Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law
TEAL VAN LANEN, Co-Founder, KinectM1
HANH CAO YU, Chief Learning Officer, The California Endowment
ADRIANNA ZHANG, First-Year Student, Stanford University, Founder and Executive Director, SF Change
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ROUNDTABLE ON POPULATION HEALTH IMPROVEMENT1
RAYMOND BAXTER (Co-chair), Trustee, Blue Shield of California Foundation, San Francisco, CA
ANA V. DIEZ ROUX (Co-chair), Dana and David Dornsife Dean and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
PHILIP M. ALBERTI, Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC
DEBBIE I. CHANG, President and Chief Executive Officer, Blue Shield of California Foundation, San Francisco, CA
MARC N. GOUREVITCH, Professor and Chair, Department of Population Health, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
MEG GUERIN-CALVERT, Senior Managing Director and President, Center for Healthcare, Economics and Policy, FTI Consulting, Washington, DC
HILARY HEISHMAN, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ
DORA HUGHES, Associate Research Professor of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
SHERI JOHNSON, Director, Population Health Institute; Acting Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize; Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin–Madison
WAYNE JONAS, Executive Director, Integrative Health Programs, H & S Ventures, Samueli Foundation, Alexandria, VA
ROBERT M. KAPLAN, Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
MILTON LITTLE, President, United Way of Greater Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
PHYLLIS D. MEADOWS, Senior Fellow, Health Program, Kresge Foundation, Troy, MI
BOBBY MILSTEIN, Director, ReThink Health, Morristown, NJ
JOSÉ T. MONTERO, Director, Center for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support; Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
WILLIE OGLESBY, Interim Dean, College of Population Health, Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
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JASON PURNELL, Vice President, Community Health Improvement, BJC HealthCare; Associate Professor, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
LOURDES J. RODRÍGUEZ, Senior Program Officer, St. David’s Foundation, Austin, TX
KOSALI SIMON, Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor, Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington
KARA ODOM WALKER, Senior Vice President and Chief Population Health Officer, Nemours Children’s Health, Washington, DC
TERRY WILLIAMS, Executive Vice President and Chief Population, Corporate and Government Affairs Officer, Atrium Health, Winston-Salem, NC
HANH CAO YU, Chief Learning Officer, The California Endowment, Oakland, CA
Health and Medicine Division Staff
ALINA B. BACIU, Roundtable Director
MAGGIE ANDERSON, Research Assistant
ALEXANDRA ANDRADA, Program Officer
AYSHIA COLETRANE, Senior Program Assistant (until July 2023)
GRACE READING, Senior Program Assistant
STEPHANIE PUWALSKI, Research Associate (from April 2023)
ROSE M. MARTINEZ, Senior Board Director
Reviewers
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We thank the following individuals for their review of this proceedings:
CARLA ALVARADO, Association of American Medical Colleges
ALEJANDRA M. HERNANDEZ, The Kresge Foundation
LANI STEFFENS, Fairfax County Health Department
Although the reviewers listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the content of the proceedings, nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review of this proceedings was overseen by HUGH H. TILSON, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this proceedings was carried out in accordance with standards of the National Academies and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content rests entirely with the rapporteurs and the National Academies.
We also thank staff member LIDA BENINSON for reading and providing helpful comments on this manuscript.
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Contents
Organization of the Workshop and Proceedings
2 YOUTH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
Goals of Youth Civic Engagement and Leadership
Strategies for Youth Civic Engagement and Leadership
Role of the State in Youth Organizing
Success Stories for Youth Civic Engagement
3 CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY AND COMMUNITY CONTEXT
Insights from the Work of CURYJ
Acronyms and Abbreviations
| ACE | adverse childhood experience |
| CURYJ | Community United for Restorative Youth Justice |
| LAUSD | Los Angeles Unified School District |
| LGBTQIA+ | lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual |
| UCLA | University of California, Los Angeles |
| YMCA | Young Men’s Christian Association |
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