Learning Community #1: Creating Youth-Centered Care (webinar series)

The Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center (AYAH-NRC) is pleased to announce the first Learning Community series:

Learning Community Series #1: Youth-Centered Care

About this series:

This virtual learning series is an opportunity for state MCH professionals and partners to explore the myriad of ways to collaboratively improve health care for youth (age 10-25) with the goal to create care that centers on youth. These opportunities include webinars, case studies and discussion forums to delve into clinic quality improvement, confidentiality, healthcare provider/staff training, youth healthcare literacy, working with FQHCs and community clinics, partnering with youth, statewide partnerships, and more.

YOUTH-CENTERED HEALTHCARE is a framework that weaves together quality clinical care done in a way that connects with and meets the needs of young people.

• Accessible
• Fosters open communication
• Provided by staff skilled in fostering health promotion, risk reduction & healthy development
• Based on evidence-based clinical guidelines
• Offered in ways that protect confidentiality
• Provided in spaces and ways that are welcoming to young people
• Engages youth in their care

Archived webinars from this series:

• Healthcare System for Adolescents & Young Adults (an overview) (February 28, 2016)
• Healthcare 101: State Partnerships for Healthcare Quality Improvement (April 20, 2017)
• Public Health’s Role in Clinical Quality Improvement (February 28, 2017)
• Related State Examples
  • Ohio TALK (Transforming Adolescent Care Initiative) (April 10, 2017)
  • Supporting Student Mental Health: Wisconsin’s Approach to Trauma Sensitive Schools (December 14, 2018)
• Related Best Practices
  • Improving Adolescent Centered Care: Training Your Team When You Don’t Have the Time or Resources for Training (January 23 & February 1, 2018)
  • Navigating the Health Care System Curriculum – A Conversation with Nemours Children’s Health System and State Adolescent Health Coordinators (SAHCs) (August 6, 2018)