The RYSE Innovation Hub is driven by our vision that all young people will have access to the personal agency, resources, and opportunities needed to achieve the best possible sexual well-being.
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In partnership with our Youth Innovation Advisors, ETR will help IDTs ensure their innovations align with our Health Equity Framework and Youth Engagement Principles. As technical assistance providers, we will support each cohort of IDTs with the development, refinement, and testing of their proposed innovations. At the end of each IDT funding cycle, we expect to produce up to 6 youth-centered innovations committed to adolescent sexual health equity.
Engage in training, workshops, & 1-1 coaching sessions led by RYSE Hub staff & SMEs, in youth engagement, theory of change development, adolescent sexual health, health equity, innovation iteration, marketing, design, and evaluation.
Receive customized coaching and technical assistance to help leverage improvement opportunities, design changes, address barriers, and share successes and setbacks.
Collaborate with our Youth Innovation Advisors to ensure your innovation resonates with your target population, meaningfully engages youth, and ensures youth as experts.
Join other innovation teams to learn, teach, and share successes, challenges, and lessons learned through our Learning Collaborative.
Drive your innovation forward with supplemental financial support. Each team will be awarded $90,000 to engage in cohort activities and innovation development.
Access a diverse range of resources and tools to move your innovation forward, related but not limited to: trauma-informed and healing-centered approaches, adult & organizational capacity, data & measurement, and sustainability.
Centering youth expertise and sharing power in innovation development, delivery and evaluation in creative ways that amplify youth voice and choice.
Elevating innovations that seek to eradicate health inequities affecting young people experiencing systemic marginalization or discrimination by promoting their agency and fair access to resources and opportunities.
Establishing a positive approach to sexual health that honors pleasure, relationships, trust, and communication in the promotion of self-esteem and overall well-being.
Cultivating conditions that establish safety, restore individual and collective identities, nurture compassionate and trustworthy relationships, develop agency to act on the issues impacting our lives, and promote hope and resilience.
Grounding our work in transdisciplinary and rigorous methods to identify the most effective, desirable ASH innovations for young people.
Remaining curious and inquisitive in generating new ideas and strategies and understanding that innovation is a creative process that requires drive, curiosity, risk-taking, and a willingness to approach challenges from new perspectives.
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