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What is Youth to Youth?

Youth to Youth is a positive peer prevention programme, which focuses on four areas within a comprehensive approach:

  • Drug Education and information
  • Personal growth and decision making
  • Environmental change
  • Drug-Free Fun

In Youth to Youth, the meetings, and various activities are facilitated and organized by the youth.

Teens are capable leaders who can be powerful and positive influences in encouraging their peers to make sound choices. They are willing and able to contribute useful, creative ideas and an abundance of energy, and to take responsibility for the prevention programmes that affect their peers.

The Important Aspects of Youth to Youth

  • Youth to Youth’s message is a clear-cut “NO” to alcohol, tobacco, or any other drug at any time.
  • Youth to Youth is uniquely teen-centered.
  • Youth to Youth play a significant role in the decision-making process, so they feel responsible for the success of the programme.
  • Youth to Youth focuses its programmes on issues that teens are most likely to face while growing up today.
  • Youth to Youth stresses the value of developing leadership skills.
  • Youth to Youth programmes involve teenagers from various socio-economic conditions, preparing youth for real-life relationships which include individuals of diverse backgrounds.
  • Youth to Youth emphasizes the development of necessary life skills.
  • Youth to Youth goes beyond merely presenting information on the dangers of alcohol, tobacco, vaping, and other drug use. Capitalizing on the emotional involvement that comes from working in small groups,

The programme encourages personal growth, presents techniques that teens can use to change their own environments, and provides alternatives to harmful behaviours.

Our Vision

Research on adolescent development confirms that when adolescents feel safe and secure, loved, and accepted, and have a sense of purpose and meaning in life they are less likely to engage in unhealthy misguided behviours; this is the premise of the Youth-to-Youth model.

Our original youth-driven, adult-guided programming has set the standard for youth development and prevention programming across the country and around the world.

Our Values

Youth to Youth strives through its programming, youth-centered philosophy, and caring adults to insure that:

  • Youth energy is directed toward positive action.
  • Teens feel empowered to voice the benefits of being drug-free.
  • Teens feel responsible for themselves and others.
  • Teens see the value in diversity and the acceptance of others.
  • Opportunity is given to all youth to develop their leadership skills to impact their schools & communities.