This article presents a conceptual framework designed to develop youth-led, youth-directed initiatives within local communities. This framework was used to guide a national evaluation of the American Legacy Foundation’s (Legacy) Statewide Youth Movement Against Tobacco Use (SYMATU) program. The approach extends the traditional individual-focused strategies. It encompassed coordinated, multicomponent interventions that aim to promote community-level change towards attitudes, norms, and behaviors against tobacco use by altering the surrounding social and physical environment.

 

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After you view the Youth Empowerment Briefing Paper, continue thinking about the youth-led program that you facilitate.
  • Complete Section Six: Group Climate, questions 1 – 5 of your Group Narrative Questionnaire handout