MDI Tomorrow
Youth Working Group

The MDI Tomorrow Youth Working Group is committed to supporting our young residents, working to involve a youth perspective in MDI Tomorrow and working with youth to identify, coordinate, develop, and assess programs to keep them safe and healthy -- to meet as many needs for as many children and youth as we possibly can.

Participants in this working group have identified three main areas of concern:

• risky behaviors (including unsafe driving, experimentation with drugs and alcohol, and unprotected sex)
• obesity, exercise and diet
• parental, community, and school support

Approaches to promote healthy early years include: safe hang-outs; intramural sports; after-school programs, especially for younger kids; year-round public transportation, more and better sidewalks and bike lanes.

But most importantly, this group feels strongly that a sustainable community structure is needed to identify the assets in and available to our youth and build upon them. All segments of the community need to be involved: youth themselves, parents, schools, other service providers. To this end, the group is working toward forming a Communities for Children program on MDI.

Y.E.S. (Youth Engaging in Society) Survey Results Posted!

Contacts:
Marty Lyons, Harbor House

To contact MDI Tomorrow:
MDI Tomorrow, c/o University of Maine Cooperative Extension, 63 Boggy Brook Rd., Ellsworth, ME 04605, 207-667-8212.

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