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  • State Adolescent Health Resource Center Young Adult Webinar Series Part II – Mental Health & Suicide Prevention

    • Join the State Adolescent Health Resource Center (SAHRC) and partner organizations as we dive into mental health and suicide prevention in young adult populations, the second in a three-part series. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, April 8th at 2:00pm EST and will last approximately 1-hour. Collaboration is encouraged so feel welcome to prepare questions and share your experiences.…
  • Improving Young Adult Health: Methods

    • Methods Where did the Strategies from this Report come from? This section discusses in greater detail the sources used to develop the five strategies in this report and to identify the resources used as examples. Review of State-Level Policies & Programs With input from young adult health experts, policies and programs were searched through: 1) keyword search of publicly available…
  • Improving Young Adult Health: Strategy 1 – Collect Data & Adopt a Measure

    • Strategy 1: Collect Data & Adopt a Measure Why Measurement Counts As a starting point to better understand the needs of young adults in one’s state, some national datasets, such as the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the National College Health Assessment (NCHA), provide state-level health data on young adults. Additionally, by fielding one’s own surveys or adapting existing…
  • Improving Young Adult Health: Strategy 2 – Build Collaborative Networks

    • Strategy 2: Build Collaborative Networks How Do Collaborations Help? By bringing stakeholders with diverse expertise together, collaborations enable more effective use of resources to address young adult health. These synergies in turn benefit Title V programs, partners and people served by Title V. There are near-endless possibilities to how Title V programs can collaborate to improve YA health. Below are…
  • Improving Young Adult Health: Strategy 3 – Provide Training on YA Health

    • Strategy 3: Provide Training on YA Health Training to Take Action Learning how to engage young adults benefits Title V professionals, partners and programs through improved expertise working with a large proportion of Title V participants. This section highlights methods for organizations at any stage of YA engagement to increase their young adult health knowledge, starting with the most accessible…
  • Improving Young Adult Health: Resources

    • General Young Adult (YA) Health Philadelphia Network of Care YA Health Articles SAHRC YouTube Video: “Young Adults & MCH” SAHRC YouTube Video: “10 Things MCH Should Know about Young Adults”  Young Invincibles Health Insurance “Got Insurance?” Social Media Campaign Enroll DC Mobile App  HealthSource RI Nag Tool Kit Sasquatch! Music Festival Marketing for Health Insurance Enrollment  Incarcerated YA & Foster…
  • Improving Young Adult Health: Lessons Learned

    • Lessons Learned Tying it All Together Based on a review of US state policies and programs, and interviews with Title V leadership in states that chose a young adult state measure, the Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center (AYAH-NRC) has outlined five strategies that states can adopt to advance young adult health. These strategies build on one another:…
  • Evidence-Based Practices Guide: Resource Matrix

    • This page provides an on-line version of our matrix of evidence based program collections. For more information, please click here.        Please click on the resource name in the left-hand column to jump directly to the annotated description, which provides a direct link to the resources. Resources for Evidence-Based Programs by Topic Area Resource Injury/Violence Prevention Preventing Chronic Disease Healthy Dev.…
  • Researchers link adolescent depression with unhealthy relationships in young adulthood

    • This study, led by researchers at Child Trends through a partnership with NAHIC, examined data that were analyzed from 6,763 heterosexual adults who completed three waves of Add Health (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a nationally representative study). The researchers found that young, heterosexual adults who reported depressive or suicidal symptoms during adolescence are significantly more likely to report:…