Media Center
The work of Colorado Youth for a Change spans across Colorado and supports students from a variety of backgrounds, ages, and geographies. We are happy to field media requests and provide resources to meet your needs.
For all media-related inquires, please contact Mary Zanotti at MaryZ@youthforachange.org.
CYC In the News
- Colorado’s youth mental health corps improves student attendance and behavior (The Colorado Sun, August, 2026)
- Service that Improves Lives: CCCS and the Youth Mental Health Corps Empower a New Generation (Colorado Community College System, June, 2026)
- Spearheaded by Young Adults in Colorado, This New Program Addresses the Youth Mental Health Crisis (5280 Denver’s Mile High Magazine, September, 2024)
- First-of-its-kind Youth Mental Health Corps trains young people to help their peers (NBC news, June 5, 2024)
- Can Young Mental Health Navigators Ease the Crisis Facing Today’s Students? (EdSurge, June 4, 2024)
- Gen Z put mental health on the map. Let them lead in solving the crisis. (The Hill, May 23, 2024)
- This New Program Offers a Systemic Solution to America’s Youth Mental Health Crisis (Teen Vogue, May 21, 2024)
- Corps of ‘near-peers’ to help schools address youth mental health struggles (K-12 Dive, May 20, 2024)
- Reading Corps program making big impact at Coyote Ridge, other Colorado elementary schools (Fort Collins Coloradoan, January 22, 2024)
- Colorado Lt. Governor takes part in reading instruction in Thompson School District (Loveland Reporter-Herald, January 17, 2024)
- Colorado struggles to track and educate kids in trouble with the law. Here’s how one student graduated, despite the odds (Denver Gazette, August 15, 2023)
- Executive Director Mary Zanotti on Mile High Living (Denver7, June 22, 2023)
- Executive Director Mary Zanotti on Mile High Living (Denver 7, August 9, 2022)
- Governor Polis announces $2 million in emergency education funding (Fox31 KDVR, May 3, 2022)
- Polis-Primavera Administration Announce Expansion of Tutoring and Student Support Program (Office of the Governor, August 6, 2021)
Press Releases
- $1.5 Million Investment in Impact Grants for Denver’s Opportunity Youth (August 14, 2024)
- New Impact Evaluation of Colorado Reading Corps Finds Outsized Gains in Student Reading Skills (October 31, 2023)
- “Someone That I Wish I Had”: Tapping Service-Minded Individuals to Stem the Teacher Shortage (April 26, 2023)
- CYC Takes Charge of Opportunity Youth Initiative (August 8, 2022)