Youth Wellness Zone

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The Youth Wellness Zone is a youth-led initiative that empowers students to define wellness, identify priorities, and develop strategies to support mental health. Community partners and systems leaders collaborate with youth to bring their recommendations to life, ensuring solutions are rooted in youth voice and lived experience.

The program launched in the 2024–2025 school year with a wellness class at On Track Academy. Explore their projects below.

Interested in being part of the 2025–2026 Youth Wellness Zone? Click here to get involved.

“I think everything that The ZONE or the Wellness Zone had for the goal of giving a microphone and a platform for our voices, for these problems that have been weighing on our minds and weighing on our shoulders for a long time. [...] Our eyes have been opened, being able to talk to legislators, being able to speak with high up people. I shook the mayor's hand ... It has widened the stage and I want that for every student who has these things to be given the opportunity to have these problems be heard and seen and validated.”

-Youth Wellness Student

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"We've had youth surveys that the youth have created, that they conducted, that they implemented, and that they analyzed about their peers and what initiatives they wanted. And I think data that comes literally from youth about youth is pretty powerful to include and lean on.”