Youth Today: “Fear, Stress Are Obstacles to Health for Youth of Color”

The YouthToday.com article “Fear, Stress Are Obstacles to Health for Youth of Color,” published on November 18, quotes assistant professor Linda Sprague Martinez in its research study on young people of color. She says that young people are the experts of their own lives and know about the conditions in their communities as well as about appropriate peer interactions in ways that adults cannot understand. “If we’re not working with communities and recognizing community knowledge, we’re not going develop interventions that meet communities where they’re at,” she said.