The Youth Board will participate as co-researchers, by co-develop focus group questions, co-conducting our focus groups, and co-analyzing the data. Finally, we will partner with the Youth Board to determine how to translate our findings into action. Future stages of our project will involve partnering with youth to use our needs assessment to develop a mindfulness intervention. Throughout, our goal is to build youth capacity to work as co-researchers and to engage in action. Youth are recruited from the surrounding Hartford community, and are compensated with stipends for their time and expertise.