Here is a small sampling of some of the projects the National Youth Advocacy Coalition has undertaken in the past.

National Training Institute For Youth Health Leadership Project

Through a cooperative agreement with the Office of Minority Health, NYAC launched the first annual National Training Institute for Youth Health Leadership during the summer of 2005. Participating agencies are listed below. Youth participants received public health training on issues relating to health promotion and wellness, strengthening HIV prevention programs through strategic planning, and peer leadership development.

2007 National Training Institute for Youth Health Leadership Organizational Participants

• The Lifelong AIDS Alliance (Seattle, WA)
• Youth Pride Center (Chicago, IL)
• Working for Togetherness (Chicago, IL)
• Youth Health Empowerment Project (Philadelphia, PA)
• GALAEI (Philadelphia, PA)
• COLOURS, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA)

2006 National Training Institute for Youth Health Leadership Organizational Participants

• The Colours Organization, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA)
• Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative (GALAEI) (Philadelphia, PA)
• Center on Halstead (Chicago, IL)
• Youth Pride Center (Chicago, IL)
• Lifelong AIDS Alliance (Seattle, WA)
• People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN) (Seattle, WA)

2005 National Training Institute for Youth Health Leadership Organizational Participants

• AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland (Cleveland, OH)
• Bronx AIDS Services (Bronx, NY)
• Bronx Lesbian and Gay Consortium (Bronx, NY)
• The Colours Organization, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA)
• Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network, Inc. (Jacksonville, FL)
• Men of Color Motivational Group (Detroit, MI)
• Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (Washington, DC)
• South Carolina HIV/AIDS Council (Columbia, OH)