Youth Listening Sessions

Submitted by JaredGP on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 2:22pm.

Hi everyone,

The Snohomish County Health Department recently conducted some youth listening sessions around the county and gathered some interesting information. A Coalition member of mine from the County Health Department thought this would be some good information for the Coalition so we had it presented during one of our monthly meetings. Lexi Nims, who was an intern there at the time compiled the findings and created a slide deck and presented it in my Coalition meeting. After the fact she also created a video recording so this could be shared with other Coalitions.

I recommend watching this as another more qualitative source of information especially if your Coalition is in Snohomish County but this can also be useful even if you are in another County though as well. It also might be a good idea to do this or something similar as another way to get information from youth in your community partnering with your local health department or some other organizations to do something similar.

I've attached the slides in .pdf format and the video is a .zip folder for anyone to access.

Attachments:

Youth substance use listening session project slides.pdf Listening session presentation recording 3_0.zip

Comments

Isaac Wulff

These are great, Jared! Thanks for posting. I love it when we make a genuine effort to get youth perspectives, especially when what they have to say is hard to hear. I'd love to hear from folks who have improved their drug education efforts lately. For my part, I've heard good things about the Friends For Life curriculum, which focuses on medications and opioids, but can be applicable to a range of substance use discussions. Here's a link to their presentations page...

https://toolkits.wafriendsforlife.com/prevention-partners#field-presentations-&-activities

Thanks again for sharing!

In community,

Isaac Wulff

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