Resources
Kaiser Adolescent Health Issue Module
This Adolescent Health issue modules, created by Kaiser, focuses on specific policy issues and features related headlines, key data, relevant reports, and more.
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Center for Adolescent Health and the Law
The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law is a unique national organization that works exclusively to promote the health of adolescents and their access to comprehensive health care. The Center addresses a broad range of complex legal and policy issues that affect access to health care for the most vulnerable youth in the United States. The Center provides information and analysis, publications, consultation, and training to health professionals, policy makers, researchers and advocates who are working to protect the health of our adolescents.
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San Francisco Health Plan (SFHP) Young Adult Phase-Out Project Outcomes Report
This AHWG report includes important findings regarding health insurance coverage for transitional age youth (TAY).
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Health Reform: Impacts on Transitional Age Youth (TAY): Information, Resources, and Recommendations for TAY Providers in San Francisco and Beyond
This Adolescent Health Working Group (AHWG) publication discusses the benefits and importance of health care reform for transitional age youth.
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Implementing a Local Collaboration for Youth in Your Community
This guide, created by the National Collaboration for Youth (NCY), assists in identifying or forming an association of local child- and youth-serving agencies.
Protecting Confidential Health Services for Adolescents & Young Adults: Strategies & Considerations for Health Plans
This issue brief from the National Institute for Health Care Management reviews the legal protections in place to ensure confidential care delivery for adolescents and young adults, the effect of privacy and confidentiality concerns on the use of health services, and health insurance system barriers and other challenges to delivering confidential care to this population.
Health Equity for Adolescents Webinar
In this recent webinar from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation (NIHCM), stakeholders discuss how health plans and health plan foundations can provide the education, tools and resources necessary for adolescents to lead long and healthy lives.
Incenter Strategies
Incenter Strategies—The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health— provides education, research, policy analysis, and technical assistance to support fundamental improvements in the way that adolescent health care is structured and financed.
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Health Care Delivery
Recent News & Research
This brief is the first in a series of policy updates and case studies associated with the multi-year evaluation of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (MSAHC), which provides comprehensive health services to adolescents and young adults ages 10-24 in…
Young Adult Preventive Health Care Guidelines: There But Can’t Be Found
In the context of increasing attention on young adult health and healthcare, NAHIC researchers (in UCSF’s Division of Adolescent Medicine) examined existing adolescent and adult professional guidelines relevant to young adults. They analyzed these guidelines, with special emphasis on the…
According to this study, teens who received information only about abstinence were less likely than others to have sought out the services that are necessary to improving their sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Even among sexually experienced teens, the data…
Recent Publications
ASHWG Core Competencies
Developed by the Adolescent Sexual Health Working Group (ASHWG), these resources are specifically intended for adult providers and educators of adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
CA Adolescent Data Set
Recently updated with 2010 data, this is a collection of county-specific data about the health status of adolescents in Excel format
Data Tables
The ASHWG Data for Adolescent Births, AIDS and STD are now updated with 2009 data
Provider Resource
Understanding Confidentiality and Minor Consent in California
Upcoming Events
Promoting the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Youth in Foster Care
This training takes places Friday, March 23, 2012, 10:00AM-noon at the Center for the Vulnerable Child, 5275 Claremont Avenue, Oakland. Caregivers, child welfare, and health professionals will:
Learn about the sexual and reproductive health of youth in foster care
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This training takes places Friday, April 27, 2012, 10:00AM-noon at the Center for the Vulnerable Child, 5275 Claremont Avenue, Oakland.
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An introduction to the theory and principles of Positive Youth development, such as understanding resilience and internal…
Panel Discussion and Launch of Public Awareness Campaign
CAHC invites you to a panel discussion and the launch of a public awareness campaign on January 31st at 11am to prevent abuse in teen relationships. Panelists include Elizabeth Miller, Lisa Fujie Parks and Melanie M. Natividad. The event takes…
