At this program, students will have the chance to engage with health issues of concern to them including mental health, health careers, community advocacy, and healthy relationships. What is special about our program’s approach is that we engage young people utilizing a positive youth development approach with a public health and health equity lens. The 2023 Boston Public Health Commission Youth Summer Enrichment Program is comprised of five separate programs: Boston Area Health Education Center, Start Strong, Youth Development Network, and the Violence Intervention Program’s Youth Organizing Institute.