S11| YEAH! Action Day

Session Overview

This optional session puts allows youth to take. Youth participants conduct a service project to improve a neighborhood or school feature they identified in previous sessions, using the neighborhood or school assessments and data research. This enables youth to see the impact their advocacy activities can have firsthand. If your group does not complete a YEAH! action day, have the youth continue to practice for their final presentation or skip to session 12.

Activities

  1. Implement Action Day Activities or Service Project

RECOMMENDED MATERIALS:

  1. Items necessary for Action Day Project

YEAH! ONLINE RESOURCES:

  1. Session 11 PowerPoint
  2. Service Project Ideas

STUDENT LEADER TO-DOS

  • Communicator: Contacts decision maker(s) to schedule the presentation
  • Clerk: Takes attendance, summarizes community assessment, takes notes during the assessment debrief
  • Photographer: Takes and uploads photos and/or videos to the selected location
  • Event Coordinator: Passes out supplies for each group
  • Healthy Snack Ambassador: Hands out snacks

Helpful Hints

  • Invite YEAH!/club members, their friends, and parents to participate in service projects
  • Reach out to local community organization for assistance (funding, supplies, volunteers etc.)

In this session, YEAH! club members will complete an optional day of action. Youth can implement a project or keep practicing for the presentation.

Session Prep and Reflection:

  • What’s your plan for this session?
  • What worked well?
  • What did not work well?
  • What was a challenge for you?
  • What were the “wows” from this Session?
  • What are you going to do differently next time?

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