This is the story of the UpLift Partnership, a School-Community-University partnership supporting the health and learning of school-aged children and youth in Nova Scotia through a Health Promoting Schools (HPS) approach. Our goal is to create the conditions for healthy learning environments by catalyzing youth engagement. We do this through adult champions, who are either Youth Engagement Coordinators (YECs) or HPS Leads in schools. We then collaborate with decision makers to create change.
The YECs and HPS Leads support student engagement and leadership development in HPS. They create conditions to meaningfully engage students to shape their school environments from start to finish. Their roles are multifaceted and includes working with students, staff, partners, and systems to engage youth in decision-making. Students work together to generate ideas, plan how to bring them to life, implementing and celebrating them upon completion.
We see meaningful youth engagement as a key ingredient of a HPS approach. Through the work of YECs and HPS leads in schools, UpLift is demonstrating the impact of youth engagement in participating schools.
The UpLift Partnership is hosted within Dalhousie University’s Healthy Populations Institute, while operating collaboratively with government, Nova Scotia Health, school communities, non-profits and the private sector. Learn more here: www.uplifns.ca
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