Category: Health and Public Health

Youth Today: “Fear, Stress Are Obstacles to Health for Youth of Color”

The YouthToday.com article “Fear, Stress Are Obstacles to Health for Youth of Color,” published on November 18, quotes assistant professor Linda Sprague Martinez in its research study on young people of color. She says that young people are the experts of their own lives and know about the conditions in their communities as well as about […]

A Center for Promise Research Fellow, Professor Linda Sprague Martinez Prepares Youth in Five US Cities to Lead Community Health Assessment

“This is really about asking the question: ‘To what extent do youth have power and agency to inform the policies impacting them?’” Professor Linda Sprague Martinez told Currents about her new project “Barriers to Wellness: Voices and Views from Young People in Five Cities.” Sprague Martinez set out to engage youth people in the identification […]