Projects for the State Farm Youth Advisory Board

Kidz Bite Back
Tallahassee, Florida
Year Funded: 2010
The Kidz Bite Back campaign empowers kids ages nine to twelve to educate their friends, families and neighbors on reevaluating their everyday relationships with high fat content foods and activities limiting physical activity like tv watching and gaming.

Hippodrome Improvisational Teen Theatre (HITT)
Gainesville, Florida
Year Funded: 2010
Hippodrome Improvisational Teen Theatre (HITT) is a dynamic service-learning project where students in area middle and high schools will learn and use theatre techniques to create live performances, as well as Public Service Announcements, radio plays, website content, and other forms of expression to deliver engaging and relevant messages on the critical issue of substance abuse.

Raise Your Voice
Anchorage, Alaska
Year Funded: 2010
Raise Your Voice will expand a successful youth-led service-learning project that addresses underage drinking. High school-based student organizations create media products such as movies and animations, graphic novels, cartoons and 'zines, songs and dances, and live presentations -- all delivered youth-to-youth and to the wider public through community and media partnerships. By creating media with an underage drinking prevention message, youth organizations have a powerful, positive impact on the peer culture in the state that ranks number one in alcohol mortality: Alaska.

The Equality Project
Columbus, Ohio
Year Funded: 2010
The Equality Project was designed by ACPA students for high school students to work with middle and elementary school students exploring issues pertaining to inequality, discrimination, acceptance, bullying, diversity, abuse and suicide. Directly tied to state education standards, students will create live performances representing personal experiences with these issues. Reflection and critical thinking exercises will be utilized to further tie the explorations directly to state-based education standards.

Youth Diversity Initiative
Fort Worth, Texas
Year Funded: 2010
The Boys & Girls Club's Keystone teen leadership groups will participate in the Youth for Unity curriculum. Using the lessons learned, teens will research, write, direct and act in skits performed at local community centers and for younger Boys & Girls Club members. Through the Youth Diversity Initiative, youngsters will learn how to: view themselves as special and unique individuals; understand our society's diversity; recognize bias and unfairness; and take personal leadership in confronting bias.

'Move It!'
Longmont, Colorado
Year Funded: 2010
Move It!' is a project designed to educate and motivate middle school youth to increase their amount of physical activity and exercise by establishing an outreach to promote physical activity and exercise within their families, schools, and larger community.

Youth Leadership Drug Intervention Group (DIG)
Santa Rosa, California
Year Funded: 2010
The Drug Intervention Group (DIG) is a leadership group at Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County which focuses on the issue of drugs and alcohol and their impact on youth.

Heart of Texas Service Learning - TEEN Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) [HOT Service Learni
Waco, Texas
Year Funded: 2010
Education Service Center 12 (ESC 12) will include 10 rural school districts in the HOT - TEEN CERT collaborative that will focus on strategies to strengthen and improve school and community crisis management and emergency response plans.

SMARTT
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Year Funded: 2010
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be creating a peer therapy program for local juvenile offenders in the system between the ages of 12 and 13, that integrates community partners, high school and college students in meaningful and substantial ways and seeks to address both the causes and effects of juvenile delinquency.

Advocating Change Together Project
San Leandro, California
Year Funded: 2010
Advocating Change Together (ACT) Project, sponsored by Girls Inc., trains and engages high school girls in local advocacy projects to address key community disparities around health, violence, racial tensions, and similar societal issues.

Hogan's Harvest
Kansas City, Missouri
Year Funded: 2010
Hogan Preparatory Academy students will design, construct, plant, maintain and harvest a food garden on school grounds to address the nutritional imbalances of their inner city school community.

Franklin Field Youth Leadership Project
Peabody, Massachusetts
Year Funded: 2010
The Franklin Field Youth Leadership Project (FFYLP) will provide youth living in one of Boston's most underserved housing developments with an opportunity to gain useful, vocational life-skills, training and potential employment through participation in an eight week vocational catering program.