California Youth Partnership (CYP) is passionate about growing a healthy generation of future adults, and we believe that educating, equipping, and empowering youth with healthy relationship education is foundational. It is more likely that healthy youth will become healthy adults and form healthy families, which then can impact the health of our communities and our nation.
CYP is committed
To educate, equip, and empower youth and adults to make choices that will lead to a healthy self, healthy relationships, and a healthy future.
To engage youth wherever they gather: in schools, group homes, detention centers, youth homeless shelters, colleges and any other places.
To implement a three-pronged approach to train youth, family/caregivers, and educators.
To apply an ecological approach to create a safe environment for youth by training the community around them.
To provide support for those who are making healthy choices to continue on the path to optimal (emotional, physical, social, spiritual, and intellectual) health. (The Optimal Health Model from the Office of Populations Affairs)
To provide positive support for those who are at risk so they can choose to move toward a healthier path.
To use the public health model and social science research to build practical health/relationship skills.
To promote primary prevention strategies to encourage people to eliminate risks.
To educate with evidence and research-based medical information that is age appropriate, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed.
To build internal and external assets and protective factors that will lead to positive youth development.
To model, as staff, risk avoidance strategies for those we educate.
To train the staff of CYP with most current and relevant information to uphold these commitments.
“Health: “State of complete physical, mental & social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.””