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Publications | Improving Access

Improving Health Care Access Through Teen-Oriented Outreach

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Improving Health Care Access Through Teen-Oriented Outreach is designed to promote effective outreach in order to increase teens' access to and utilization of health care. This new brief is designed to help policymakers, service providers, and communities implement this recommendation. It contains the accumulated knowledge and experience of over 25 organizations involved in outreach through schools, health agencies, and community-based organizations. Please read this document and see what you can do to improve utilization of health services among youth. (pdf.file)

How you can use this information:

Identify specific activities that you can do to improve health care access among teens.
Share the brief with others in your community and use the How You Can Make A Difference section to help them identify activities they can do.
Use the resources and tools listed in the document to get additional information on effective outreach to teens.

Since the publication of the hardcopy of this brief, several additional tools have become available.

Reaching Out: Successful Efforts to Provide Children and Families With Health Care identifies barriers to health insurance coverage for adolescents and families at the local community, state, and federal level, and highlights ways to improve outreach to families, based upon programs utilized throughout the country. Available at http://www.communityvoices.org.

Covering Kids' Communications campaign, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, focuses on increasing awareness among providers and the general public of child and adolescent eligibility for free and low cost insurance coverage. Covering Kids provides free training kits on utilizing the media to reach specific populations and related promotional items at http://www.coveringkids.org/communications.