Date: March 19, 2019
Volt20 is the ultimate health resource guide every young person needs to help them thrive. Volt20 helps youth think about their lives, decide what they like about their lives right now, what they wish were different, and plan for a healthy future. Volt20 helps adolescents and young adults, up to 24 years old, focus on what’s going on with their bodies, minds, relationships, and the places they live, learn, work, and play. It helps them create a written “game plan” for establishing, maintaining, or sustaining a life of health and well-being.
Power up by answering Volt20’s 20 health questions. After selecting the health issues that concern you most, learn how to start making significant changes. You can share your results with a parent or caregiver, teacher, or counselor. Use the journal to write down your goals and reflect on how to take steps to achieve them.
Complete the 20 questions and follow the guide online or download the youth guide to read. Do it yourself, or get help from a parent or caregiver, teacher, or counselor.
Young people can complete the survey and read the youth guide by themselves, or they can enlist the support of parent or caring adult.
Adults have their own facilitator guide which provides information on each health topic and also offer tips on how to talk to young people about engaging in healthy behaviors.
The power of Volt20 lies in its versatility. Young people can complete the survey and read the youth guide by themselves, or they can enlist the support of an adult caregiver, teacher, or counselor.
Adults have their own facilitator guide which provides information on each health topic and also offer tips on how to talk to young people about engaging in healthy behaviors.
Educators, counselors, and health workers can use Volt20 to engage young people in healthy behavior change. Adults can engage young people using a one-on-one approach, or they can facilitate Volt20 in large groups with our group planning guide and group planning template kit.
Everyone Loves Volt20!
An evaluation of Volt20 with 142 diverse youth ages 14 to 24 showed that young people and caring adults alike were very satisfied with Volt20. Overall, young people found the content approachable and informative. Caring adults appreciated the tools to help them engage in a conversation about life goals and healthy behavior with young people. Our evaluation report summarizes the findings nicely.
If you need additional assistance implementing Volt20, or would like formal training for your staff, contact us at CapacityBuilding@HealthyTeenNetwork.org.
Citation: Healthy Teen Network (2019). Volt20: 20 questions to a healthy future [Website]. Baltimore: Author. Retrieved from www.Volt20.com.
