Category: Youth leadership
Passionate Student Leaders Come Together for RAVE Youth Summit
July 2, 2025
HCI Network Impact Coordinators Ashley Gardner and Emily Culver and the RAVE student leadership team joined other passionate youth advocates from across the Twin Cities at the RAVE Youth Summit in Minneapolis last week — coming together to support Reduction and Awareness of Vaping and E-Cigarette use. Gardner said the youth members left the summit […]
Youth work is for everyone
June 10, 2025
By Martha Lundin as a Guest Columnist for the Northfield News For the last four years, I worked with high school students as Healthy Community Initiative’s youth engagement coordinator. I am a youth worker. I became a youth worker by accident. Accident in the way that I did not aspire in high school to become a […]
YouthBank Celebrates 10 Years of Powerful Youth-Led Community Improvements
March 19, 2025
We celebrated 10 years of Northfield YouthBank this past Saturday and took a look back at some of the great programs and youth-driven change that YouthBank grants have supported over the years. From the construction of Arcadia Charter School’s hoop house, to providing instruments to the Key Youth Center, and the inception of Community Youth Activity Night (CYAN), Northfield youth have worked to shape the city. […]
Grant Recipients Announced by YouthBank
January 7, 2025
By Martha Lundin as a Guest Columnist for the Northfield News Northfield YouthBank has granted $7,390 to five youth-led community projects for 2024-25, including two spearheaded by middle school students. The theme for this grant round was “level the playing field.” Twelve YouthBank members were involved in the granting process. The projects that received funding […]
Healthy Community Initiative – a network of people caring about other people
May 3, 2019
Article by Elsa Hoff, published in the Northfield News, May 1, 2019 Elsa is a member of the Healthy Community Initiative Board of Directors. When I hear someone talk about Healthy Community Initiative, I think of several different things. Sometimes I think about the Board of Directors and my experience serving with this wonderful group. […]
Northfield Historical Society is Making a Difference
July 29, 2014
The Northfield Historical Society has received the Healthy Community Initiative’s “Making a Difference” Award for July. The award celebrates groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth.
EMS Explorer leaders are Making a Difference
September 12, 2013
Brian Edwards, Jim Ingham and Julia Smith, members of Northfield Hospital & Clinics Emergency Medical Services (EMS), received the Healthy Community Initiative “Making a Difference” Award for September. The award celebrates groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. The three honorees were instrumental in forming an Explorer Post […]
Awesome Club volunteers are Making a Difference
July 25, 2013
The Awesome Club was founded three years ago by a then-St. Olaf student, Natalie Davis, as a social skills club for high school students with autism. This year, about 16 high school students and about half a dozen college volunteers met weekly after school to play games and spend time together. Through the sale […]
Northfield Skateboard Coalition is Making a Difference
April 21, 2013
The Northfield Skateboard Coalition has received the Healthy Community Initiative’s “Making a Difference” Award for March/April 2013. The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. Rob Hardy, an adult adviser to the group, and filmmaker Cecilia Cornejo nominated the coalition members for the award, citing […]
Local high school students are Making a Difference
February 3, 2012
Four teenagers who organized a benefit concert for a family who lost their home in a fire are the December 2011/January 2012 recipients of the Healthy Community Initiative’s “Making a Difference” Award. The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. Within hours of learning of […]