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The Teen Health Council is a diverse group of high school youth that works in collaboration with the Chicago Department of Public Health and the CPS Office of Student Health and Wellness to research, debate, and report on policy recommendations concerning nutrition, physical activity, healthy relationships, and sexual and mental health. In 2010, the group decided to spread their health movement through school-based youth wellness teams that identify health problems in their schools and propose and implement changes to make their schools healthier.
Throughout the summer, Mikva Challenge youth policymakers identified the most pressing issues and inequities currently affecting Chicago youth. At a town hall event, they presented their policy recommendations and identifying ways to take action to turn their vision for our city into a reality. Read the Teen Health Council’s full set of recommendations.
We simply could not have so much impact on the ground with kids without the work of the Mikva Teen Health Council.
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Read the Youth Wellness Teams Toolkit created by the Teen Health Council here.
Read the Council’s Health Ad Concepts to Increase Healthy Choices here.