YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL The New Face of Advocacy FOWSIYO ADEN - UC - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

U C S D S C H O O L O F H E A L T H A N D M E D I C I N E YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL The New Face of Advocacy

FOWSIYO ADEN - UC San Diego Student - UCSD YAC Member - Activist - Leader "No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future".

SUAD ABDI H S H M C S E N I O R U C S D Y A C M E M B E R P O E T R Y P H O T O G R A P H Y A C T I V I S T "If you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise." -Rupi Kaur

CITY HEIGHTS, SAN DIEGO FROM A DIVERSE COMMUNITY,WHERE MANY PEOPLE COME FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, WE SHARE SIMILAR STRUGGLES.

UCSD YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL A PROGRAM FOR YOU, BY YOUTH TO HELP BRING EQUITY & SOCIAL CHANGE IN NEIGHBORHOODS

R O O T C A U S E S O F O B E S I T Y I N O U R C O M M U N I T Y

POVERTY poverty correlates to obesity.

ACCESSIBILITY Quality healthy food is not available in every community

MENTAL HEALTH your emotional health and physical health connect

WHAT DO THE YAC MEMBERS DO?

RESEARCH.

Youth-led Participatory Action Research Using YPAR, YAC members worked on a project to conduct research on who utilizes the city heights farmers market. Through this project, youth have the opportunity to learn and use research methods to collect accurate data.

YAC OBSERVES THE CITY HEIGHTS SATURDAY FARMERS MARKET TO COLLECT DATA ON PARTICIPATION

ADVOCATE.

ENACT DAY 2019 UCSD YAC uproots it ' s members to pursue what advcocacy and social change means to them . To this group of passionate youth it meant flying out to Sacramento to advocate for their communities to CA Legislatures .

AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION RULE #1 OF ADVOCACY: DON'T FORGET TO EDUCATE, INFORM, AND PRESENT YOUR WORK AND IDEAS. NOT ONLY DO MEMBERS GROW FROM THIS BUT CAN ALSO DEVELOP NEW SKILLS FROM WHAT OTHER GROUPS HAVE TO SHARE

OPPORTUNITY.

CHANGING AN IMMIGRANTS LIFE Seham Nuur shares how a simple act of kindness may be nothing to us but to someone it can drastically change thier life . She uses her experiences as a Somali immigrant to shape her narrative and love for advocacy . TRIPLE THREAT: CHANGING OBSTACLES INTO DRIVE Huda Ahmed discusses how her intersectionality as Black , Muslim , Woman in 21st century America has shaped her identity and voice .

TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES HOW THIS ANNUAL CHALLENGE COURSE REMINDS YOUTH OF THE SKILLS AND QUALITIES AN EFFECTIVE ADVOCACY CHAIN WORKS ON Hard Work Listen v . s Hearing Respect Change is the result of endurance We all have different propoals Whether it comes to sharing and hard work . Your desired and ways to work through different perpectives or ideas a outcome is only as good as the something but listening to one successful group respects it ' s work put in to get there . another is what makes those members and their backgrounds solutions the most effective .

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

P R O V I D E S P A C E S A N D R E S O U R C E S F O R P E O P L E T O L E A R N A B O U T M E N T A L H E A L T H A N D I T S C O N N E C T I O N T O O B E S I T Y . O R G A N I Z E , I M P R O V E , A N D / O R S P E N D M O N E Y A T F A R M E R S M A R K E T S / L O C A L B U S I N E S S E S

1. Make it Happen 2. Advocate for it 3. Support it

S U P P O R T Y O U T H - L E D P R O G R A M S

Be part of the change. The real change.