Adult partners who will be attending Youth Quest 2024 are encouraged to attend the pre-event Coordinator Webinar. This webinar will provide guidance to coordinators on how to prepare for the event, review the agenda and Youth Quest key messages,, and discuss legislative visits. The webinar will be recorded and shared with all registered adult partners.

This webinar will provide an overview of Youth Quest; what participants can expect from attending the event; share guidance on registering youth coalitions/groups; and answer any questions adult partners may have about registering, preparing, or attending this year’s statewide event.

This webinar is the third in a series on the foundational concepts of youth engagement.

WEBINAR OVERVIEW

Learning youth engagement concepts is helpful, but how can adult partners apply them in community settings? Through this session, CYAN will provide tools, ideas, and even model practices that create safe and welcoming spaces. Participants will learn how to use community agreements, community circles, and decision-making processes to navigate conflict and nurture healthy group dynamics.  

WEBINAR SERIES DETAILS

Youth have the ability and right to be a part of the decisions that impact their life, yet young people are not always welcome within decision-making spaces or processes. As adult coordinators, allies, and partners, it is crucial to create and advocate for environments where youth can express their agency without systematic barriers.  

In collaboration with TCCC (Tribal Community Coordinating Center) and the LGBTQ Center OC, CYAN (California Youth Advocacy Network) has developed a webinar series to discuss foundational concepts of youth engagement, restorative and social justice practices, as well as youth-centered spaces – which can all help to nurture authentic youth-adult partnerships. Come and join an informative series and be a part of the movement to expand youth voice and action. 

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This webinar is the second in a series on the foundational concepts of youth engagement.

Webinar Overview

There are many systems that inform our practices. This includes the way we teach, learn, and engage with one another. This session will focus on the ways laws, culture and social norms influence the way we perceive and interact with youth. Participants will learn the importance of regularly dismantling and unlearning practices that oppress youth and how to become adult allies that empower youth. 

Webinar Series Details

Youth have the ability and right to be a part of the decisions that impact their life, yet young people are not always welcome within decision-making spaces or processes. As adult coordinators, allies, and partners, it is crucial to create and advocate for environments where youth can express their agency without systematic barriers.  

In collaboration with TCCC (Tribal Community Coordinating Center) and the LGBTQ Center OC, CYAN (California Youth Advocacy Network) has developed a webinar series to discuss foundational concepts of youth engagement, restorative and social justice practices, as well as youth-centered spaces – which can all help to nurture authentic youth-adult partnerships. Come and join an informative series and be a part of the movement to expand youth voice and action. 

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This webinar is the first in a series on the foundational concepts of youth engagement.

Webinar Overview

Youth advocates occupy the many intersections of our communities. To understand the way youth have historically been oppressed is to understand our own history of oppression. This session will discuss the importance of identity and the role it plays in advocacy. By the end, participants will understand why youth are critical partners in the process to create positive community change. 

Webinar Series Details

Youth have the ability and right to be a part of the decisions that impact their life, yet young people are not always welcome within decision-making spaces or processes. As adult coordinators, allies, and partners, it is crucial to create and advocate for environments where youth can express their agency without systematic barriers.  

In collaboration with TCCC (Tribal Community Coordinating Center) and the LGBTQ Center OC, CYAN (California Youth Advocacy Network) has developed a webinar series to discuss foundational concepts of youth engagement, restorative and social justice practices, as well as youth-centered spaces – which can all help to nurture authentic youth-adult partnerships. Come and join an informative series and be a part of the movement to expand youth voice and action. 

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CYAN’s Spring 2023 youth listening sessions illuminated a strong preference for digital cessation support and resources. This webinar provided an overview CYAN’s youth social media quit campaigns, including campaign development, testing messages with youth, and quit campaign outcomes. The session also shared best practices for crafting messages to support and motivate youth quit attempts, as well as shared the digital resources CYAN has available for the field.

Webinar Recording

CYAN has hosted youth and young adult listening sessions since 2013, with the most recent wave of listening sessions occurring in Spring 2023. The Spring 2023 Youth Listening Sessions hosted nearly 100 diverse youth participants (12 – 18 years old) and were held at middle school and high school campuses across California. Listening session topics included tobacco and marijuana products and devices, harm perception and addiction, school enforcement, product use catalysts, and quit support preferences.

This webinar provided an overview of CYAN’s Spring 2023 Youth Listening Session findings, as well as the key factors impacting use, shifting attitudes regarding tobacco and marijuana, and the pressing need for inclusive resources that address the link between product usage and mental health.  

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Young adults continue to use vaping devices at higher rates than any other adult population. College students, specifically, have seen an increase in vaping compared to young adults not in colleges. This webinar provided a brief overview of current young adult tobacco use behavior, discussed changes in young adult addiction since introduction of nicotine salt vaping devices, shared information on tobacco/nicotine addiction, highlighted young adult quit behavior, and promoted resources students can use to support quit attempts. Additionally, ideas for promoting quit resources on college and university campuses during the Great American Smokeout were shared. 

Webinar Recording

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The California Youth Advocacy Network (CYAN), in partnership with the Colorado School of Public Health, hosted a webinar on qualitative methods for engaging youth and adult partners in capturing and reflecting on community strengths and weaknesses. This webinar briefly reviewed two of these methods, Photovoice and Directed Photography, and discussed their similarities as well as differences. From there, presenters provided information on how to determine which method to use, reviewed the learning process to conduct a directed photography activity, and shared examples and guidance on engaging youth to document community concerns and influence policy, system, and environmental change.

Webinar Slides

Webinar Recording

In August and September 2021, CYAN presented a two-part webinar series on youth and young adult cessation. The first webinar provided an overview of youth and young adult cessation research, quit patterns, and preference for digital quit support, and the second webinar provided a case study of CYAN’s youth and young adult social media quit campaigns. 

In April 2020 - January 2021, CYAN developed, tested, and launched three youth and young adult social media campaigns aimed at motivating and supporting tobacco quit attempts. This webinar provided an overview of the campaigns’ development, outcomes, and lessons learned.

Webinar Recording

CYAN is presenting a two-part webinar series on youth and young adult cessation. The first webinar will provide an overview of youth and young adult cessation research, quit patterns, and preference for digital quit support, and the second webinar will provide a case study of CYAN’s youth and young adult social media quit campaigns. 

Leveraging the most recent published research, this first session will discuss how youth and young adults approach quitting tobacco, their motivators for quitting, and the types of quit support they are most likely to access. Additionally, this webinar will discuss how COVID-19 has impacted youth and young adult tobacco use patterns, quit attempts, and the need for digital cessation tools and support.   

Webinar recording is available here.

As more and more college campuses adopt smoke and tobacco-free policies, advocates and administrators are working to determine how to ensure policy compliance.  Before a campus can begin to address compliance, they must collect extensive data to understand if their policy is successful. A team of researchers from two California universities developed a crowdsourcing-based Tobacco Tracker, which was used during a nine-month period to document tobacco use and waste at a University of California (UC) and a California State University (CSU) campus.  This webinar will share preliminary data collected from both campuses.  CYAN will also discuss interventions designed to increase policy compliance on campus as well as share information about methods for collecting data to show impact of policies.

Webinar Recording

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