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Boise

Comunidades para jóvenes
Iniciativa del suroeste de Idaho

Comunidades para jóvenes
Iniciativa del suroeste de Idaho

Las escuelas de Marsing , Southwest District Health , St. Luke's Community Health and Engagement , padres, socios y otros miembros de la comunidad se han comprometido a ser una comunidad para los jóvenes. La iniciativa espera impulsar los esfuerzos de salud mental, prevención del uso de sustancias y bienestar de los jóvenes. Marsing está en su tercer año realizando la Encuesta de Bienestar Juvenil y en su segundo año trabajando como Comunidad para Jóvenes y ya han visto algunos resultados prometedores. Juntos, la comunidad de Marsing mantiene la atención en construir la mejor comunidad posible para los niños.

Focus Area

2025-2026

Youth Social Connection

Youth social connection includes teens’ relationships with same-age peers, but also parents/family, people like teachers, mentors, and other trusted adults, as well as how supported and included they feel in their general community. Social connection is strongly related to mental health.

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Current Projects

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Get Out There

 Get Out There Boise is a resource to help teens across the Treasure Valley get social in real life. Get Out There was built and is maintained by Communities for Youth in partnership with many groups of local teens.

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Youth-Friendly Businesses

Youth-Friendly Businesses are partners who sign the Youth-Friendly Business pledge and adhere to youth-friendly principles. Youth-Friendly Businesses across Boise can be identified with a Youth-Friendly Business sticker.

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Boise's Youth Roadmap

The roadmap project is the City of Boise’s effort to consider youth well-being across their departments. It also brings partners across the city together to create a collective impact that identifies and/or enhances programs that support youth wellbeing, learning, creativity, safety, and career exploration.

Community Roles

Youth Engagement

Our Teen Action Team, supported by Central District Health, is a summer leadership institute in which students learn about upstream prevention of mental health and connect with partners and other like minded teens to increase local youth well-being. We also interact with youth in school based Hope squads, leadership and student councils, and other students interested in getting involved.

School Engagement

Our team works closely with public, private, and charter schools’ leadership, staff, and professional learning communities to help schools identify evidence-informed best practices that support student well-being based on findings from the Idaho Youth Well-Being Survey.

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Community Lead

Heather Allan

Central District Health

Meet our Community Lead, Heather. Have questions?  Want to get involved? Get in touch!

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