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COVID-19 and College Campuses: MyVoice Provides Youth Perspectives for a 2020 National Academies Report
In its third collaboration with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), data from the MyVoice National Poll of Youth shines in a new national report that provides recommendations on how to stem the spread of COVID-19 infections on college campuses. The report, Encouraging Protective COVID-19 Behaviors among College Students, is a “rapid consultation” that offer lessons learned from the 2020 fall semester regarding COVID-19 testing and guidance on student behavior, as college administrators plan for the 2021 spring semester. Quotes from MyVoice participants feature predominantly in its first pages, reflecting the lived experience of college students across the country.
A Different Struggle: What the Pandemic Is Doing to Kids and Teens
While children likely are infected at much lower rates than adults, and have lower rates of becoming symptomatic, the psychological effects of COVID-19 have hit them hard and are likely to leave lasting emotional scars. Their social development is being hampered, many are scared of the ways the pandemic will impact them and their families, and mental health resources are strained. Kids and teens are feeling the dearth of socialization opportunities more acutely than adults, too, and for good reason.
In Election 2020, youth share views on health care and political participation
Pandemic and health issues are top of mind for the election, and changes to reproductive health funding are unpopular among MyVoice participants, according to new 2020 polling. New analysis of a set of 2020 MyVoice polls finds that most youth are unaware of changes to...
What do teens & young adults need to get through the COVID-19 pandemic?
Last spring, the pandemic sent them home from high school or college, derailed their sports and activities, and sent them into “essential” workplaces that carried a new health risk. The summer has come and gone, and now they’re facing months more of living, learning, working and trying to have a social life in the time of COVID-19. But what do people in their teens and early 20s need to get through these times? New data from a MyVoice study based at the University of Michigan give some important insights.
Back to School During COVID-19: What Youth Experience and What They Need
The 2020 school year will be unlike any other. MyVoice is here to capture the near real-time thoughts and experiences of youth in America, and that includes how 14 to 24 year olds are navigating a learning and work environment that may look and operate in radically...
The National Academy of Medicine Hosts MyVoicers in Virtual Listening Session
Adolescents need to be heard to ensure that health programs that serve them are reaching them effectively, according to Promoting Positive Adolescent Health Behaviors and Outcomes, a report released in December 2019 by the National Academies. Following its own...
COVID Contract Tracing and Youth: MyVoice on NPR
As COVID cases rise among teens and young adults, a national public health response must quickly adapt. Speaking to NPR, Tammy Chang shared findings from the MyVoice national poll of youth. According to NPR, from June to August 2020, several counties in Michigan...
New Research: Many youth say active shooter drills are harmful
While 56% stated that drills made students more prepared for an active shooter event, there was a lack of consensus over whether they make schools safer—60% reported feeling unsafe, scared, helpless or sad as a result of experiencing active shooter drills.
Experience the 2020 MyVoice Annual Report
2020 has been a lot. Current events have rearranged our lives, reworked our priorities, and reenergized our visions for a better future for youth in America. We wanted to share our 2020 Annual report, which covers much of the work that we've been doing behind the...