Core Center collaborator SAHRC created multiple tools to support adolescent and young adult health programs in State MCH Programs, such as guidelines and tip sheets, learning sessions, tip/fact sheets, and resource libraries. Examples of state initiatives are included across resources. Key focus areas include: Adolescent and Young Adult Development Framing and Communications State Capacity for Adolescent Health Youth Engagement Youth-Centered…
Three tools provide guidance for MCH programs addressing AYA behavioral health. Part of the Center’s AYA Behavioral Health CoIIN, these “legacy products” are based the Center’s experience with two cohorts of state-based partnership to improve AYA behavioral health: Self-assessment: State/jurisdictional Maternal & Child Health Capacity to Improve Systems of Mental Health Care for Adolescents and Young Adults. This tool helps…
The well visit remains a key indicator of health care access and quality for adolescents and young adults and is included in several national data sets available for public use. This brief provides up-to-date information on the well visit measure in these national data sets. This tool is intended for those who monitor or analyze well visit among adolescent and…
The AYAH-RN supported an on-line adaption of an in-person weight stigma prevention project. Led by Bryn Austin, PhD, in partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard University, the project aims to teach public health professionals strategies to mitigate weight stigma in obesity prevention campaigns. Participants develop an evidence-based health communication campaign focused on childhood obesity prevention that is attentive to ethical concerns…
Engaging Research Innovations and Challenges (EnRICH) The AYAH-RN was invited to present as part of the Engaging Research Innovations and Challenges (EnRICH) webinar series hosted by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau in February 2021. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the AYAH-RN highlighted two AYAH-RN projects linked to the pandemic: studies of young adults led by Dr. Hoyt…
Multidisciplinary clinical training program to improve delivery of health care to gender diverse youths. Dr. Stanley Vance, with guidance from AYAH-RN PI Dr. Ozer, has led development of a pediatric transgender medicine curriculum. The curriculum includes six modules, and pre-post clinical self-assessment tools.
The Center created multiple tools to address adolescent and young adult mental health concerns, through an innovative “CoIIN” quality improvement project focused on depression screening and follow up care, complemented by public health interventions. About three quarters of people with depression experienced their first symptoms by age 24. Thus, the teen and young adult years present a key window to…
The COVID-19 pandemic brought increased attention to the mental health status and needs experienced by young adults. The 2021 Surgeon General’s Advisory addressing the importance of protecting youth mental health highlights the growing mental health crisis among children, adolescents, and young adults. Among young adults, mental health conditions had been rising prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and during the COVID-19…
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…
References Read the full guide, “Improving Young Adult Health: State & Local Strategies for Success,” online or as a PDF. Table 1. Labor force status of 2018 high school graduates and 2017-2018 high school dropouts 16 to 24 years old by school enrollment, educational attainment, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, October 2018. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/hsgec.t01.htm.…
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