CALAIS – Jesse Clark, a Calais High School freshman and member of the Blue Devil Health Center’s Teen Advocacy Group, attended a joint meeting of Maine Youth Action Network staff, Maine students, and representatives of the Maine Assembly on School-Based Health Care last month.

Participants heard a presentation on the school-based health center movement in Maine and the nation. Plans also were discussed to include students in the public health policy discussions in the next session of the Legislature. Finally, the students and adults discussed preparations for the 25th annual Peer Leadership Conference, titled “The Change in ME Starts With the Change in Youth!” for this year.

The Blue Devil Health Center’s Teen Advocacy Group will send eight student leaders to this year’s conference in Bar Harbor on Friday and Saturday Nov. 14 and 15.

MYAN is a partnership of youth and adult staff working to help Maine youth and their advisers in peer groups to fulfill their own missions. MYAN is a program of the Peoples Regional Opportunity Program, a nonprofit, multiservice, community action agency committed to transforming the community by helping people in need build better lives.