• To improve public awareness of youth’s assets and health risks.
  
• To catalyze support for barrier free access to health services and programs that match the needs of San Francisco’s young people.
  
• To influence, create and change procedures, policies and laws to ensure delivery of an age appropriate and culturally-competent continuum of integrated health services that emphasizes youth development, health promotion, prevention, harm reduction, psychosocial guidance, and family education and support.
  
• To significantly enhance the quality and coordination of comprehensive youth health services.
  

Our Values and Beliefs

• Youth and their families and loved ones deserve our attention, support, guidance and care.
  
• Youth are unique and their specific needs, which are continuously changing, must be taken into account by health programs and services.
  
• With information and direction, youth are powerful and educated health consumers and they can make valuable contributions to the design, conduct and evaluation of health programs and services.
  
• Youth health rights and responsibilities must be preserved while ensuring parent education and guidance.
  Every effort should be undertaken to eliminate health disparities among San Francisco youth with regard to race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, geographic location, and socioeconomic factors.
  
• Given appropriate information and input, providers and policy makers will make better decisions when crafting and implementing programs and services.
• The important task of addressing and improving youth health and well-being rests with families, community members and institutions, professionals that come into contact with or work on behalf of youth and health care providers, services/programs, and systems.

Our Activities

• Conduct community, public policy, and scientific research and analysis.
• Disseminate information and knowledge.
• Convene groups and forums for information sharing, planning and strategizing, networking and socializing.
• Organize and provide public and provider education and training.
• Voice issues, concerns and positions on behalf of the coalition.
• Collaborate/partner with new and/or like-minded coalitions and groups.