A Virtual COVID-19 Youth Ambassador Program: The UI Health CHAMPIONS Experience.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to exacerbate socioeconomic and educational hardships rooted in systemic inequities for youth across the United States. (Virtual) youth resilience and health promotion efforts are viable mechanisms to address these hardships in the context of a double pandemic: COVID-...
| Publicado en: | Health Promotion Practice Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 13 - 17 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jan2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=182025174&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 182025174 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15248399 IS2 jtl: Health Promotion Practice issn: 15248399 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jan2025 vid: 26 iid: 1 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 182025174 173840764 182025174 182025174 10.1177/15248399231213351 182025174 ppf: 13 ppct: 4 formats: tig: atl: A Virtual COVID-19 Youth Ambassador Program: The UI Health CHAMPIONS Experience. aug: au: Suarez, Natalia Plascencia, Jennifer affil: University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL, USA sug: subj: COVID-19 Prevention and Control Health Promotion Methods Health Education In Adolescence Community Programs Colleges and Universities Illinois Online Education Program Development Illinois COVID-19 Pandemic United States Systemic Racism Empowerment Community Health Services Program Implementation Program Evaluation Financial Support Social Change Education, Health Sciences Career Planning and Development Students, High School Adolescence Adolescent: 13-18 years ab: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to exacerbate socioeconomic and educational hardships rooted in systemic inequities for youth across the United States. (Virtual) youth resilience and health promotion efforts are viable mechanisms to address these hardships in the context of a double pandemic: COVID-19 and structural racism. Health professions training programs hold a unique opportunity to incorporate COVID-19 health education to train and empower youth to become community health ambassadors. Grounded on a Grow-Your-Own (GYO) approach, UI Health CHAMPIONS spearheaded the development of the COVID-19 Youth Ambassador Program (COVID-19 YAP), a virtual multistage and multipartner effort. Its mission is to equip youth with knowledge, perspective, and tools to have empathetic, informative conversations within their networks about COVID-19. Via e-learning, modules cover viruses and the immune system; vaccine development; health disparities/equity; and health advocacy. Participants are introduced to Human-Centered Design Thinking to guide the development of advocacy projects. COVID-19 YAP's uniqueness lies in the team of program coordinators consisting of (pre-)health professional student workers with a desire to engage in health equity efforts and community health ambassadorship. Freirean principles are applied across program design and delivery; Dialogical Education encourages the educator to become the student and the student to become an educator. This co-learning process empowers students and educators to become agents of social change. COVID-19 YAP can serve as a collaborative effort addressing a public health priority, contributing toward digital health equity, and creating community resilience while encouraging youth to pursue a health profession and become community health advocates. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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