STAND To Be Active

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STAND To Be Active

Waterford, United States
Team Contact: vradha
Team Type: Youth Venture
Team Phase: Launching Venture

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About Us

We make middle school students aware of the dangers that are presented by alcohol, other drugs, and self-defeating behaivors

The Student Leadership Services, Inc. STAND SAB (Students Taking A New Direction Student Advisory Board), believe that middle school students need to be made aware of the dangers that are presented by drugs, alcohol and other self-defeating behaviors. Research indicates age of first use is approximately 11.3 years old. The summers of 7th and 8th grade are also noted as particularly vulnerable times for youth because they tend to experiment with non-healthy behaviors that damage their physical and emotional health. Today’s youth also lack healthy nutrition and physical activity. In fact, approximately, 21.4 % of youth are overweight in Oakland County, Michigan and 15.5 % overweight nationally. We need to change the numbers by leading “STAND To Be Active” groups.
The STAND SAB will be trained and will develop a series of three 50 minute workshops and handouts that address Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Substance Abuse Prevention, Violence and Injury Safety and Health and Nutrition The STAND SAB and Allies will contact middle schools to schedule the workshops. “STAND To Be Active” lessons will address the whole student: emotional; social; psychological, and physical health in 11-14 aged youth.
This project will motivate middle school students to start STAND Chapters and begin planning projects that reinforce the four areas of health covered in the initial lessons.
Youth leading youth is very effective prevention. We believe in teaching youth the skills necessary to help them make positive choices and deal with peer pressure.

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Community Development, Community Organizing, Healthy Lifestyles, Mentoring, Safety and Violence Prevention, School Community Development, Substance Abuse, Youth Empowerment

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How does your group impact your community?

“STAND To Be Active” will benefit our community, our school and our peers because it will call upon us to make a commitment and recruit Middle School youth to participate in STAND, which has projects to reach the community, school and peers with healthy living messages. The program will benefit the community because we will involve the media to publicize STAND activities to change the perception of youth who contribute to the community. Also, since this will end with a challenge with other schools, the involved students will get the rest of the school to support them in their venture. The peers will support their friends. Finally, the community, school and peers will see what a difference this program has made in the lives of the youth and will encourage them to be more positive and to stay away from alcohol and other drugs. It will increase their perception of risk of alcohol and other drugs and increase their physical, emotional and personal safety when it comes to Health and Nutrition and Violence and Injury.

How many people have been impacted by your group?

We currently have 3 middle schools on board with the Venture, one in each county of Michigan (Oakland, Wayne and Macomb) aproximately 100 middle schools students will be participating. We are still in the process of recruiting more Middle Schools to participate in the Venture Project.

What we really enjoy about being young changemakers is...

We really enjoy the reward of making a change which is priceless. It's a great feeling to know that we are role models for youth and that we influence their decisions. However we take the responsibilities of being a changemaker very seriously. We understand that youth looks up to us and therefore we cannot do anthing that will influence them to make bad decisions.

What other youth networks are you involved in? What other websites do you belong to, other youth organizations, etc.?

"The STAND To Be Active" Venture is a Project of the STAND Student Advisory Board which is a program of Student Leadership Services, Inc. Student Leadership Services is a Non-Profit Youth-led Prevention Organization that works with middle schools and high schools all over Michigan.

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Describe your recent Venture activities. What have you accomplished since selection?

We received an invitation to a statewide conference to present our Health and Nutrition workshop to our high school peers. We’ve successfully presented the Substance Abuse “Drug Jeopardy” workshop, the Violence and Injury workshop and the Health and Nutrition workshop to 14 middle school students. Each workshop had an increase from pre to post tests. We are in the planning stages of our Global Youth Service Day project which is our Physical Challenge day. We have scheduled 5 middle schools to participate in the venture project and are working to confirm the dates for our final 3 schools.

Have you faced any difficulties? Were you able to solve them? If so, how? If not, what would have been helpful to you?

Two members of our committee dropped out, but we were able to solve the problem by adding another student to the group. Another difficulty we have faced was the dates for one of our schools cancelled without notice; we solved that problem by using that time to start planning our Physical Challenge day and rescheduled the workshop. Finally, we had a difficulty with getting to the different schools on time because we are so spread out around the region. We were able to solve this problem by having our parents volunteer to drive us where we need to be.

What upcoming plans do you have for your Venture? How will your Venture continue to benefit the community?

We have scheduled and confirmed the dates for 5 schools to present our workshops to approximately 100 middle school students. We have been invited to present our venture workshops at 4 statewide conferences in 2008. We are in the process of contacting local officials and corporations to sponsor our venture. Also, we are getting prepared for the Physical Challenge in celebration of Global Youth Service Day and all that it will entail so that we can contact local media to be apart of the big event. We also have planned to advertise the Physical Challenge to middle school students across Michigan which is approximately 600 middle schools.

Describe your relationship with your Ally and your Partner Organization.

We work closely with a youth-led non-profit organization called Student Leadership Services, Inc. who gives us opportunities to present our venture workshops at their statewide student-led conferences. They also provide us with the network of schools in our region so that we were more easily able to schedule our venture activities with the local schools. This has given us the ability to reach more students then initially anticipated. Our adult ally is Patricia DeVries and we have a very close relationship with her. She helps schedule dates for schools and helps us with transporting us where we need to be. Also, she provides us with advice and keeps us on track during meetings.

Have you taken advantage of Youth Venture materials? Tell us your thoughts and ideas to make Youth Venture stronger!

We just received the Tool Kit and are looking forward to using it.

What could Youth Venture do to help you even more?

YSA has been very helpful through the entire grant project timeline thus far. We haven’t had too many challenges yet that have required help from YSA, but we are confident that if we did they would be able to provide us resources and support.

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What other youth networks are you involved in? What other websites do you belong to, other youth organizations, etc.?

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Describe your recent Venture activities. What have you accomplished since selection?

Have you faced any difficulties? Were you able to solve them? If so, how? If not, what would have been helpful to you?

What upcoming plans do you have for your Venture? How will your Venture continue to benefit the community?

Describe your relationship with your Ally and your Partner Organization.

Have you taken advantage of Youth Venture materials? Tell us your thoughts and ideas to make Youth Venture stronger!

What could Youth Venture do to help you even more?

How would you like to continue your involvement with Youth Venture?

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