Alcohol, Tobacco, & Other Drugs
For some teens, experimentation with alcohol and drugs leads to negative consequences including direct physiological harm, impaired judgment leading to risk-taking and violence, and disengagement from school.
Behavioral Health
Adolescence is an important time to prevent, detect, and treat mental health issues as many mental illnesses often appear for the first time during the teenage years.
Injury Prevention
Injuries are the primary cause of death for adolescents. Unintentional injuries account for the greatest proportion of deaths among 10 to 24 year olds.
Foster Care
Adolescents in foster care experience this important developmental period in a unique and challenging context. Youth may be placed with a relative, with a foster family or in a group home.
Environmental & Occupational
The environment plays an important role in the health of people of all ages, contributing to illnesses such as asthma and cancer, and to neurodevelopmental and reproductive conditions.
Homeless Youth
Safe and stable housing is a critical support for adolescent health and development. Yet, many young people in California experience some form of homeless during adolescence.
Juvenile Justice
Contact with the juvenile justice system is often the result of engagement in risky or delinquent behaviors, such as substance use or violence, which are influenced by complex personal and community social and economic factors.
Adolescent Relationship Abuse
Adolescent Relationship Abuse (ARA) refers to an escalating pattern of repeated acts that physically, sexually, or emotionally abuse a member of a couple in which one or both partners is a minor.
Reproductive Health
Although sexual development is an integral part of adolescence, early sexual activity can have negative consequences. The majority of teens who become pregnant indicate that their pregnancies were unplanned, unintended, or mistimed.
Teens & Tech
Technology and social media provide new ways for teens to create and navigate their social environments.
Youth Development
The principles of Positive Youth Development advance the view that all youth, even those who experience great challenges or adversity, have the capacity to experience positive health and social outcomes.
Nutrition and Physical Activity
Within the US, poor diet and physical inactivity are second only to tobacco as preventable causes of death among adults. Childhood and adolescence are critical times for the development of these lifestyle habits.
LBGTQI
Despite growing attention on the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning youth, LGBTQI youth continue to grow up in environments that fail to recognize their needs and experiences.
Health Care Delivery
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Rural Latino Adolescents
A significant proportion of California’s Latino adolescents live in rural or non-suburban or non-metropolitan communities.
