Comments on: Suicide Risk Increases for Overweight Teens http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/06/suicide-risk-increases-for-overweight-teens/ Diet Column - bringing you all the best diet news and opinions Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:57:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Brooke http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/06/suicide-risk-increases-for-overweight-teens/comment-page-1/#comment-10050 Brooke Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:55:01 +0000 http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/?p=9515#comment-10050 Kirsten, thank you for sharing your thoughts and expertise. I'm glad we've connected on twitter too! I am a big fan of youth leadership because it is effective and an investment in our future. Kirsten, thank you for sharing your thoughts and expertise. I’m glad we’ve connected on twitter too! I am a big fan of youth leadership because it is effective and an investment in our future.

]]> By: Kirsten http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/06/suicide-risk-increases-for-overweight-teens/comment-page-1/#comment-10024 Kirsten Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:58:24 +0000 http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/?p=9515#comment-10024 The key to getting youth engaged in a community-change program is to get them in at the beginning of an effort. Want to really understand the issues face by youth? Ask them about it and have a real conversation, without judgment about what it's like right now to be a young person. Designing a program about healthy body image? Ask youth to come up with both goals of the program AND the delivery methods. Offering activities and workshops? Get youth to design AND lead them. I work at a youth-focused intermediary agency, MCCOY, and we provide training and support to youth-serving organizations and efforts. Our ultimate goal is to help them find ways to effectively engage youth, to have youth making decisions, providing leadership and - at the heart of all of that - being healthy and happy youth and building skills for a productive and connected adulthood. The key to getting youth engaged in a community-change program is to get them in at the beginning of an effort.
Want to really understand the issues face by youth? Ask them about it and have a real conversation, without judgment about what it’s like right now to be a young person.
Designing a program about healthy body image? Ask youth to come up with both goals of the program AND the delivery methods.
Offering activities and workshops? Get youth to design AND lead them.

I work at a youth-focused intermediary agency, MCCOY, and we provide training and support to youth-serving organizations and efforts. Our ultimate goal is to help them find ways to effectively engage youth, to have youth making decisions, providing leadership and – at the heart of all of that – being healthy and happy youth and building skills for a productive and connected adulthood.

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