Health Initiatives for Youth(HIFY) is a multicultural organization whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of underserved young people through innovative youth leadership, popular education and advocacy, in pursuit of multi-level social change.
HIFY has been around since 1992 and have provided a range of services from peer education, HIV Counselor training, Workshops for youth on a variety of health topics, media making workshops for zines and digital stories, and much, much more. Here’s a small snippet of HIFY’s rich history.
HIFY has four philosophies that guide the work that we do:
Youth Development
Anti-Oppression
Here’s why the work we do is so important.