Your Partners for Transformative Change
Youth Well-Being
Our vision is to create and foster environments where youth have access to the opportunities and conditions that enable them to thrive and be well, where they are active agents of their own futures, and where they are valued as true collaborators in developing solutions.
Our Values
Our work is anchored by our core values:
- We leverage our influence, power, privilege, and positions to serve young people.
- We value trust, accountability, and humility.
- We are grounded in equitable, person-centered approaches that value the needs and strengths of every young person.
- We stay committed to the work by uplifting the voices of young people and youth leaders who show up as their authentic selves.
- We recognize the need for power shifting to balance decision-making processes and center the voices of youth who are most impacted by the issue we address.
We also affirm and incorporate C4’s core values. Learn more.
We Can Help You ↓
- Innovate in youth behavioral health and well-being program development, implementation, evaluation, and research
- Develop and implement community-centric, equitable, and scalable youth peer workforce strategies
- Conduct youth engagement and programming that is developmentally appropriate and responsive to a wide range of youth needs, identities, and experiences
- Prioritize “upstream” prevention and early intervention approaches that address risk factors and social determinants of health
- Create radical engagement with youth partners and build community partnerships
- Create and disseminate best practices in youth public health and behavioral health in communities and states across the country
Our Areas of Focus
Embedding near-age youth peer professionals in schools to deliver non-clinical behavioral health and other well-being initiatives
Leveraging the unique power of near-age youth peer mentors to implement a youth-focused, strengths-based, and non-punitive prevention and early intervention program
Youth Prevention and Early Intervention
Supporting schools and communities to advance equitable, scalable, and evidence-based prevention and early intervention models
Youth Peer Curricula
Creating, enhancing, and refining youth peer and youth peer supervisor curricula tailored to match the needs of our partners
Youth Engagement and Advisory Boards
Developing spaces and platforms for youth to authentically engage and share their unique expertise as young people and key collaborators on issues that affect them
Youth-Centered Evaluation
Conducting and supporting evaluation and research that combines best practices and innovative methodologies with community shared decision-making and engagement
Our Experts
Transform Your Services
Partner with C4 to create and foster programs and solutions where youth have access to opportunities to thrive and where they are active agents of their own futures.
Learn More
- Listen to a podcast series featuring youth peer workers and recovery innovators discussing how to improve and uplift behavioral health systems for youth.
- Youth Peer Self-Assessment Tool (PDF)
- Listen to a podcast series on youth recovery.