Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center

The Division is home to Minnesota's Healthy Youth Development • Prevention Research Center (HYD-PRC), one of the premier sites in the country for adolescent health research. Researchers are learning about the best methods for providing teens with the necessary skills and opportunities to live healthy and meaningful lives. The center is also learning how to reduce health disparities that exist among Minnesota's young people.

At a North Minneapolis public school, the Center partners with County and youth center workers to provide school-based service learning. The Minneapolis Public Schools' Lead Peace program combines three curriculums creating a wealth of ready-to-use resources for serving learning facilitators at the school.

The HYD•PRC is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention Research Centers Program, which supports research centers at 33 universities across the country to combat chronic disease by creating and testing interventions.

In the News
 

HYD•PRC Co-sponsored training:
2009 Summer Institute in Adolescent Health: Social and Emotional Health for all Young People: Expanding Approaches
July 27-29 2009 (July 30th for graduate students only)

Vienna Rothberg, HYD•PRC research assistant and School of Social Work/Public Health graduate student, was awarded a $5000 fellowship through the President's Initiative on Children, Youth, and Families to continue important evaluation work in partnership with the Division of Indian Work. The fellowship allows her to continue her efforts to assist the organization in evaluating their sexuality education curriculum for Native American youth called Live It!

HYD•PRC Community Outreach Coordinator Jenny Oliphant and Tracy Utech, PRC Dissemination Coordinator (as well as Tracy's daughter Victoria) were all on WCCO-TV for a segment on parents and kids talking openly about sex and relationships. The segment mentioned "It's That Easy," a curriculum which Oliphant helped develop. Watch the segment here:
http://wcco.com/specialreports/talking.kids.sex.2.960702.html

Imee Cambronero, an SPH graduate student and Healthy Youth Development•Prevention Research Center Fellow, has just been awarded the 2009 President's Student Leadership and Service Award. Imee will be honored at an awards banquet with President Bruininks presenting the award himself.