The Crozer-Keystone Health System Wellness Center’s Youth Leadership Program has been awarded the Achievement Award from the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP).  

Based at Community Hospital, the Youth Leadership Program addresses multiple risk behaviors of high school students in the Chester-Upland School district. Each year, the program involves 40 high school students and provides them with training to be peer leaders to sixth grade students, while also offering enrichment activities to help develop the participants.

The goal of the program is to train the students to be leaders in the community. The program incorporates training sessions, service learning and enrichment activities for each student. In addition to training and the instructional components of the program, the peer leaders are also offered a variety of personal, academic and career enrichment activities through out the year. Last years programs included activities such as student resume writing workshops, college tours, tutoring, career presentations, job shadowing opportunities, public speaking engagements related to the Youth Leadership Program, special events planning and a program development committee for new grant applications and projects.