SPECIAL EVENT

"Lighting the Way to Healthy Futures"

California's FIRST School-based Health
Center Turns 20!

The Balboa Teen Health Center, located on the campus of Balboa High School,
has been making students health and well being a priority since 1986.
Comprehensive services are provided by an interdisciplinary team of health
care providers supported through a collaboration of the San Francisco
Department of Public Health, the San Francisco Unified School District and
the Bayview Hunter's Point Foundation.

Please come and celebrate this milestone event with staff and supporters:

Thursday, 18 May 2006 at 6:00 pm
Balboa Teen Health Center
1000 Cayuga Avenue
San Francisco California 94112

Dinner, Entertainment and More!
Free Shuttle Service will be available To and From the conference with
departure at 5:30 pm

PLENARY SESSIONS

Thursday May 18 - 9:00 am
"Power of Your Voice"

Mary Hayashi
Mary Hayashi has a longtime personal and professional dedication to health care and public service. She has advised the nation’s top policy leaders and established unprecedented partnerships in support of social causes that previously had no financial or public backing. She is the president and founder of the Iris Alliance Fund, a children’s mental health foundation. She was instrumental in the Proposition 63 campaign and is now a commissioner on the California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission.

Mary is a member of the Board of Registered Nursing where she serves on the Board’s legislative committee. She previously served as the California Director of the American Public Health Association. She is board member of the Institute of Mental Wellness at CSU East Bay and Girls, Inc of Alameda County.

vicki abadesco!
vicki abadesco! is an expert educator and program consultant with 20 years of leadership work with schools and organizations throughout the United States and abroad. Her extensive work with a wide diversity of thousands of youth and adults allows her to have a constant pulse on what people need to be launched into lifelong success and growth.

Creating, developing and implementing programs that support people to learn is vicki’s passion. Her expertise and training includes individual and group level counseling, conflict resolution, crisis intervention and accelerated learning techniques. She has written and produced several curriculum manuals based on life skills and is a seasoned facilitator of learning.

vicki! is co-founder of Soul Shoppe, a widely acclaimed educational program that teaches life skills and character education in schools that reaches thousands of young people every year.

Thursday May 18 - 4:30 pm
"Spare Change"

Spare Change
Spare Change Peer Education Program recruits teens throughout Northern Humboldt County. Through the medium of theatre, they are dedicated to raising people’s awareness of the issues relating to sexuality and teen life. Current members attend Arcata High School, McKinleyville High School, Six Rivers Charter High School, Eureka High School, College of the Redwoods, and Tsurai High. Members are volunteers for Six Rivers Planned Parenthood and received over fifty hours of comprehensive sexuality and health education.

Friday May 19 - 9:00 am
“Rights, Responsibilities, Reactions”

Claire Brindis
Claire D. Brindis, Dr. P.H., is Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is Executive Director of the National Adolescent Health Information Center and Associate Director of the Policy Information and Analysis Center for Middle Childhood and Adolescence; both organizations are sponsored by the Division of Adolescent Medicine and the Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) and funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She is also a Director of the Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and IHPS, UCSF.

Dr. Brindis’s research focuses on adolescent and child health policy, adolescent pregnancy and pregnancy prevention, adolescent health and risk-taking behaviors, reproductive health services for men and women, school-based and integrated health and social services. Other research projects include evaluations of California’s Community Challenge Grant, a comprehensive teenage pregnancy prevention program, as well as two evaluations of policy coalitions devoted to environmental health and asthma and community clinics.
Dr. Brindis chaired the Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association in 2003-2004 and is chair of the Board of Directors for Advocates for Youth, Washington D.C. Dr. Brindis also serves on the Steering Committee of the CDC’s National Health Objectives for the Year 2010. She serves as a member of the “Science Into Practice” National Advisory Committee for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Washington, D.C.

Margaret C. Crosby
Margaret Crosby has been an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California for 30 years. She has brought many cases involving reproductive privacy. She argued two cases before the California Supreme Court to protect the reproductive rights of poor women and young women: in 1981, the Court ruled that restrictions on Medi-Cal funding of abortion for indigent women violated the California Constitution (Committee to Defend Reproductive Rights v. Myers), and in 1997, the Court ruled that a state law requiring teenagers to obtain parental or court consent for abortion violated the California Constitution (American Academy of Pediatrics v. Lungren). She also worked closely with Senator Sheila Kuehl in authoring California’s Reproductive Privacy Act, which protects birth control and abortion choices, and the California Comprehensive Sex Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Act, which ensures that sex education in California schools is comprehensive, bias-free and medically accurate. She has headed a project to implement California’s sex education law through education and advocacy directed at state agencies and local school districts.

Crosby received her J.D. degree from Yale Law School and her A.B. degree Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College. She served as a law clerk to Robert F. Peckham, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Rebecca Gudeman
Rebecca Gudeman, J.D., M.P.A, is an attorney with the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland who works on child and adolescent health issues. She specializes in issues of consent, confidentiality and interagency exchange of information. She founded and directed the School-Based Legal Services Program at the Children's Rights Project at Public Counsel in Los Angeles. Ms. Gudeman is a co-author of Legal Issues for Pregnant and Parenting Teens in California (1998).

Gudeman earned her B.A., Magna Cum Laude, from Harvard University, and her J.D. from the UCLA School of Law. She also holds a Master in Public Administration degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Rebecca came to NCYL from the Universidad de las Americas in Mexico City where she was a Professor of Law and directed creation of a Masters in Human Rights program. Prior to that she was Director of the School-Linked Services Program for the Children's Rights Project at Public Counsel in Los Angeles.

Jessica Rothhaar
Jessica Rothhaar is the Northern California Regional Organizer for Health Access California. She has been a lobbyist, policy advocate and community organizer for 20 years. She has worked on a broad variety of issues affecting public health, child and family well-being and community development, and has lobbied on federal, state and local budget issues in California, Washington, D.C. and London, England. Prior to joining Health Access, she ran her own consulting firm specializing in policy advocacy for nonprofits and foundations in California

Health Access California is a broad coalition working for quality, affordable, health care for all, made up of over 200 organizations representing seniors, people with disabilities, children, immigrants, communities of color, health care professionals, people of faith, labor, women, families, and communities throughout California. Founded in 1987, Health Access California has promoted universal health care solutions and advocated and won specific reforms to expand health access, including the California HMO Patient Bill of Rights and expansions in Medi-Cal and Healthy Families.

Friday May 19 - 3:00 pm
“The Teen Brain: Behind the Promise and the Challenge”

Curren Warf, MD
Dr. Warf is a pediatrician and specialist in adolescent medicine on faculty at the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. He is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Adolescent Medicine and holds a Masters Degree in Education. He is the medical director of the High Risk Youth Program, a program for homeless and runaway youth in Hollywood and surrounding communities, and has extensive experience with child and adolescent victims of child abuse, and youth in high-risk environments over the last 10 years. Dr. Warf is the director of the Fellowship Program in Adolescent Medicine at CHLA. He is a Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Keck-University of Southern California School of Medicine. He is the chair of the Adolescent Health Committee of the Los Angeles area chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Warf is on the Board of Directors of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles and the National Board of Physicians for Social Responsibility. He is the AAP representative on the Child Health Consultant Advisory Committee to L.A. Care, the supervising agency of MediCal managed care in Los Angeles County