Lindsay Pena

Health Information Project (HIP), Inc.

Health Information Project (HIP) is a 501(c)3, not-for-profit organization, located in Miami, Florida. HIP's purpose is to educate teenagers about their health issues and to encourage and assist them in accessing existing community health resources. HIP educates high school students through a school-based, peer-to-peer comprehensive health education model. HIP empowers high school students to tackle the health crises of their generation. Since its creation in 2009, HIP has trained over 21,000 upperclassmen as peer health educators and has taught over 425,000 9th grade students.