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Rural Youth Leadership Training Report to the Arizona Rural Health Conference
An Arizona Rural Health Association Initiative
Prepared by Alison Hughes AzRHA Board Member
July 26, 2017
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Purpose
• Prepare youth for leadership positions.
• Focus on youth living at the Arizona-Mexico border and low-income urban areas.
• Introduce youth to health care issues, problems and solutions at the community level.
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Learning Objectives
• Provide youth with skills to advance leadership capacity
• Engage youth in cross-training experiences that enable information exchange about local and complex issues impacting their communities.
• Train youth in methods of peer-to-peer counseling that contribute to a reduction of opioid use and abuse at the community level.
• Connect youth with mentors and resources to support them in their future careers.
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What We Are Accomplshing
• Investing in rural youth through leadership training.
• Building youth skills and confidence for leadership positions.
• Creating a rural youth leadership network .
• Connecting youth to the communities in which they live.
• Contributing to rural, border, low-income area health equity.
• Improving life opportunities and health outcomes of young people.
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Two Major Reasons We Are Involved
• Rising numbers of rural youth are unemployed and out of school. At the Arizona border many of these youth fall into the category of “dreamers.”
• Teen birth rates are higher in rural counties than in urban centers and suburban counties, regardless of race/ethnicity. In 2010, the teen birth rate in rural counties was nearly one-third higher than the rest of the.(CDC)
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Process
• Raising funds-- donors: – Portable, Practical Education Program (PPEP),
Legacy Foundation, Freeport McMoRan, Regional Center for Border Health , Cenpatico Integrated Care, City of Douglas, SEAHEC, NRHA funds to AzRHA and the generous support of individuals.
• Collaboration in event planning with leaders of five high schools, including leaders, teachers, counselors, students. (Planning Committee.)
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Process (Continued)
• Vendors were on hand to provide information to the students: – Arizona Division of Problem Gambling
– Arizona State University
– Grand Canyon University
– Health Professions Opportunity Grant Program
– Pima Community College
– University of Arizona
– U.S. Border Patrol
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Flashback to 2016 Rural Health Conference
• During the 2016 Rural Health Conference, participants heard Sofia Gomez discuss her work with dreamers in the context of immigration and healthcare in a documentary photograph presentation.
• The next two slides speak a thousand words from two dreamer youths featured in Sofia’s presentation, and offer a segue to this one.
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The Planning Process
• The next slides explains the structure we used during the forum.
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Program Structure
• T-Shirt-- Colors by community • Speakers – Adults and peers with leadership
expertise • Small group decision making (flip charts and
markers provided) • Leadership roles – students self select
– Group facilitator – Scribe – Time keeper – Group reporter
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Program Structure (Cont’d.)
• Student evaluations
• Graduation ceremony with individually inscribed award certificates
• Trip to UA campus and the Planetarium
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Political Leadership Involvement
• Each year we ask the Mayor(s) of the community in which the forum takes place to prepare a proclamation.
• The following slides are examples of Mayoral involvement in the 2016 and 2017 forums.
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2016 Somerton Youth Forum Hon. Edmund Domingues, Cocopah Indian Tribe,
Council member; Hon. Amanda Aguirre, CEO, SWBRHC; Hon. Gerardo Sanchez, Mayor of San Luis
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Mayor of Tucson Proclamation 2017
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Receiving Mayor Rothschild’s Proclamation
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Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild
with students
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Friday Evening Speakers
John Arnold, CEO, PPEP Ms. Munguio, CEO CAS
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Getting to Know Each Other—Ice Breaker
Ball toss– answer a question written on the balls – about yourself; about drug issues. Facilitated by youth of Be Free Pima peer-to-peer education program
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Emma Fajardo Olivia Otero
Leadership Success Stories—Young Speakers
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Listening to Emma and Olivia
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THE FOLLOWING SLIDES SHOW THE LEVEL OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
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Small Group Decision Making: Addressing community issues and methods for resolving them—2016 Forum Flashback
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SMALL GROUP LEADERS REPORT BACK TO GENERAL SESSION—2017 Check the issues documented by students on the paper
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A Visit to UA Campus and Planetarium
• At the end of the forum, we took the students over to the University of Arizona campus where they picnicked on the Mall and experienced their first visit to a planetarium.
• A live exhibit of liquid nitrogen enthralled the students.
• The next pictures show the students on the campus.
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Exploring the UA Mall
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At the Planetarium Liquid Nitrogen Exhibit
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Liquid Nitrogen Exhibit (Cont’d.)
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Science Games
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2016 Graduating Class
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2017 Leadership Class—Growing, Growing…
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Student Evaluations—What they Learned– Student Quotes
• “You have got to want it, believe it, and live it to your full potential.”
• “The most meaningful thing to me was when we got the opportunity to discuss with our school about a future project.”
• “The part when they taught us about substance abuse because it showed many problems that I did not know about.”
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What Students Learned (Cont’d.)
• “How to motivate students.” • “Everyone can be a leader.” • “The importance of community issues.” • “Everyone has a voice.” • “How our community needs help.” • “How to manage a plan to organize a big group of
people.” • “Steps to become a great leader” • “If you do not speak up you are betraying your own
scene.”
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Student Projects—What They Propose
• Somerton (PPEP): Form a club to assist troubled teens.
• San Luis (PPEP): Implement a student project to deal with dropout prevention, bullying and drug use.
• Douglas (PPEP): Create a sports club and also a project to beautify Douglas.
• Douglas (CAS): Develop a student peer tutoring project.
• Tucson (PPEP): Form a community service club to perform “acts of kindness” and change the way we think.
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Where We Go From Here
• Generating meetings with student project leaders at each of the five high schools. (September 2017.)
• Planning videoconferencing sessions in collaboration with the Arizona Telemedicine Program in which the student groups will report to each other on the status of their projects.
• Get further input from students on the future of their leadership coalitions.
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All photographs and text in this presentation are by Alison Hughes. Permission to reuse is requested at
END—Questions?