Healthy Youth Peer Education (HYPE) is an adolescent leadership development program that encourages teenagers to define what they think a healthy community for youth looks like.  Over a 5 week period this summer, youth will assess local resources and strengths that can be harnessed to overcome the problems within their neighborhoods.  Youth participants with diverse backgrounds and risk profiles from Allentown area will be trained as advocates and researchers using methodologies from public health, community media and the creative arts. The goal of the program is for the young people to develop an agenda for social change to bring their vision of how everyone—youth and adults— can work toward creating that healthy community in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Goals of the HYPE Program:

•Build skills for positive self-expression and critical thinking

•Develop skill set for work as change agents through training in team-building, community-based research and advocacy

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•Create a shared vision for what community should be and how youth find their place in it

•Create a positive environment for diverse group of youth sharing prosocial norms

•Develop supportive relationships between participants, professionals and college students involved in change work