Innovations 4 Youth/Youth Participatory Action Research Led by Dr. Emily Ozer, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are advancing Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) initiatives through the Innovations 4 Youth collaborative. Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Emily Winer has led progress on a systematic review examining environmental outcomes of YPAR projects. Recent work has included development of new environmental outcomes tables…
INSPIRE Led by Drs. Ozer and Lester, INSPIRE builds on gaming techniques to create an environment in which teens participate in unfolding narratives that address peer pressure, social norms, and alternative consequences of alcohol use. Players adopt the role of a teen protagonist who “relives” a high-school get-together involving alcohol, with virtual characters who model a range of health behaviors.…
3-E Study of Economic and Educational Well-Being The AYAH-RN continues to collaborate on the NIH-funded 3-E R01 study (5 waves of surveys and campus health visits over three years, N=4,000), which aims to understand links between economic experiences, educational experiences, and cardiometabolic health among emerging adult (defined here as ages 18-24) college students at two Hispanic-Serving Institutions in California (California…
NEXT Generation Health Study (A Marcell, PhD, E Ozer, PhD) Collaboration is ongoing on the AHRQ R03 with Dr. Arik Marcell (Johns Hopkins) focused on building the evidence for adolescent substance use preventive care at well-visits from mid-adolescence to young adulthood using the longitudinal NEXT Generation Health study. The aim of the secondary data analysis of the longitudinal NEXT Generation…
Health e-Check/Talk Tools integration (Ozer E, PhD, Berna M BA, Buckelew S, MD, Giovanelli A, PhD, Sieving R, PhD RN, Mehus C, PhD) Health e Check (Jasik et al., 2016), originally developed by Ozer and colleagues through funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), is a behavioral/emotional screening tool for clinical settings completed by Adolescents and Young…
The Teen and Parent Surveys of Health Supplement in the Journal of Adolescent Health National data on adolescent health services, health education, and additional protective factors remain limited, hindering programmatic efforts to improve adolescent health and well-being. To address this gap, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with NORC at the University of Chicago, conducted the…
Supporting parents of adolescents with substance use disorders, Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) pilot project (Giovanelli A PhD, Ozer E PhD, Mesheriakova V MD, Pugatch M PhD) Dr. Alison Giovanelli, assistant professor (and UCSF LEAH alumna) developed a modular skills-based group intervention for parents/caregivers of adolescents with Substance Use Disorders, leveraging AYAH-RN support and mentoring from the Network PI…
Brian Villa, MPH, MSW, works with i4Y – Innovations for Youth at UC Berkeley to engage young people in California in Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR). YPAR focuses on the lived experience of youth and the integration of their voice into decision-making. Brian has been creating a YPAR dashboard and interactive map, which when complete will enable youth, community members,…
CLINICAL PREVENTIVE SERVICES FOR ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS: RESEARCH REVIEWAYAH-RN partners authored a review article on AYA clinical preventive services (CPS), examining evidence for increasing access to CPS, improving clinician’s delivery of CPS through clinician training & screening tools, and evidence of CPS interventions that result in behavior change. The article also reviews emerging research on engaging parents and expanding…
Led by Dr. Angela Barney, former UCSF LEAH medicine fellow, UCSF investigators examined the provision of health care services to adolescents and young adults via telemedicine, with a focus on examining (1) disparities in provision of care and (2) experiences of patients and their parents, using quantitative date from Electronic Health Records (EHR) to identify patient characteristics associated with receipt…
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