Youth To Youth Empowerment

Project overview


Y2YE Logo with sun, mountains, and Denver skyline

The Youth to Youth Empowerment lab is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to conduct a youth-centered mixed methods study.  

Specific Aims 

  • Identify and examine associations among social and structural contexts and interpersonal and individual level factors with substance use and sexual risk taking among urban American Indian and Alaska Native and Black youth of Denver Metro, CO.  
  • Develop and operationalize a comprehensive and multilevel conceptual framework of risk and protective factors of behavioral health outcomes of youth of color.  

 

Centers for American Indian & Alaska Native Health

Colorado School of Public Health

CU Anschutz

Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building

13055 East 17th Avenue

Mail Stop F800

Aurora, CO 80045


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