The Role Of Adolescent Health Centers Play On Public Health

As a counselor in training and an advocate for individuals’ mental health and wellness, I chose to become an official member of the American Counseling Association (ACA) and create an advocacy project to enhance adolescent mental health and wellness by advocating for more available protective factor to reduce substance use and abuse among this population. The purpose of this paper/project is to address and improve the rate of substance use and abuse among adolescents in Pitt County, more specifically in Greenville, North Carolina. This paper goes into great detail of the description of the population (adolescents), providing statistical evidence of adolescents’ use of drugs in Greenville. An increase in youth involved community activities, community service work and parental involvement will be discussed as ways to create a healthy, anti-drug, and stable environment for adolescents in Greenville, North Carolina.

Regional School Unit (RSU) #64 is comprised of an elementary, middle and high school within a small rural community in the town of Corinth, ME. This community is largely supported by agriculture and local business. However, it is about 20 miles from Bangor, ME, the closest city with numerous resources. Unfortunately, this distance restricts Corinth residents with a lack of transportation from having access to these resources. Inadequate knowledge and awareness of health care promotion and prevention methods also have adverse results on community health. Whether the resource be obtaining a pair of glasses or medication from a pharmacy, even the seemingly effortless tasks can present challenges and go to show that members of this community suffer disparity due to their rural location.

Dana Farber wrote about the Harvard Cancer Center, an NCI-designated comprehensive Pediatric cancer center to build upon the collective talent and resources of the Harvard cancer research community. She talks about her experiences working with childhood cancer. Ferber is aimed at providing a better understanding of adolescent health issues and developing new interventions to improve the health for adolescents. She is also initiating and studying new methods of delivering healthcare to at-risk youth and designing new curriculum for teaching adolescent health to health care providers.

I visited Wilmington Health Access for Teens for a field experience observation. Through this experience I observed different types of people seeking care in the clinic. Some people I saw in the clinic were African American females with children and Caucasian females. People who come into the clinic are seeking medical assistance and following up on routine examination appointments. I learned of different barriers when accessing care at the clinic and types of presenting health problems among adolescents and teens. From this field experience, I learned about Wilmington Health Access for Teens health services and how they help teens improve their health and provide preventions, education and outreach services to promote optimal health

At McKinley’s own family clinic that she founded, she took on the responsibility of leading a3 team of highly skilled staff and creating a hugely successful office. Additionally, she has attended as well as presented at several regional professional Nurse Practitioner association conferences throughout her career. McKinley also has consulted with a few different struggling family medicine clinics around the country to help them to succeed as well as she did and save their business. She also has worked with a select few universities to assess

Brief Bio: Pamela Mann is the Director of Programs and Rounds Training at The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, and is responsible for many aspects of its programs, including the national expansion of The Schwartz Rounds™ program, now offered at 500 healthcare organizations throughout the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. Schwartz Rounds provides support to healthcare workers facing social and emotional issues as they care for patients and families. In contrast to traditional medical rounds, the focus is on the human dimension of medicine, with the premise being that caregivers are better able to make personal connections with patients and colleagues when they have greater insight into their own responses and feelings.

Lifelong sexual health for adolescents requires this vulnerable population have information about and access to affordable, youth-friendly, and culturally competent sexual healthcare services. In addition, the providers of these sexual healthcare services should be trained to respect privacy and support these teens in making individualized choices that are appropriate for them. As evidenced by the rate of STIs and unplanned pregnancy among marginalized youth populations, barriers such as stigma, discrimination, lack of knowledgeable providers, cost burden,

Societal, community, intrapersonal and the individual all are seen as contributing to the way a person approaches a health behavior. This framework has shown to be used extensively in explaining substance use among homeless adolescents. There is no single factor that causes homelessness or substance use, this framework acknowledges that and gives important information for prevention and treatment. There are many different reasons that youth become homeless. Ray (2006) found that family conflict was the primary cause of all homelessness in adolescents. Whatever the cause, the fact is that homeless adolescents need to have the focus of public health professionals to prevent increased numbers of HIV, and other blood-bore illnesses, drug overdoses, violence, and death.

The Corner is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team including physicians, nurses, social workers, nutritionists, health-educators, patient navigators and administrative staff. The staff serves adolescents with the goals to increase their access to health care, reduce risk-taking, help them understand long-range implications of their health behaviors, and encourage and develop participation in and responsibility for their own health and well-being. The staff works for the community, adapting and adjusting services to meet the most current needs of those they serve. Currently the organization is in the process of employing an additional LMSW to offer more behavioral health services to patients and is also increasing substance abuse and intervention. The staff has begun targeted outreach to the LGBTQ population and male youth, both populations whom are less likely to seek primary care services. These additional services are being

This paper gives a detailed reflection of my experience at the Wilmington Health Access for Teens (WHAT). In this paper certain issues are addressed such as barriers that teens and their families face when trying to get health care. It is highly common that low income families visit the WHAT center due to the fact that they do not turn people away regardless of their ability to pay. Another barrier to access to care is transportation. Due to low incomes or simply lack of public transportation, some people do not have a reliable way to reach a facility that can provide them with the care they need such as WHAT.

The mission of ST. Mary’s Regional Health Center is to provide quality, courteous, and appropriate care. Our efforts are demonstrated by recognizing the value of each patient, potential patient, employee, and allowing the stakeholders to become a part of the healthcare process. Not only is it our Mission to satisfy the needs of the individuals we serve, but also develop long-term client and patient relationships and act as a trusted partner. The determination, passion, and commitment from our physicians, nurses, support staff, and partners permits St. Mary’s to maintain quality care in not only our hospital but all our healthcare settings.

In communities across the nation, homeless adolescents under the age of eighteen are surviving on the streets alone and afraid. The availability of homeless shelters, for this demographic, are few and far between. If the shelter is available to take in the homeless youth the facility is on average a mixture of ages and genders, mental health disorders, substance and drug abuse. The people who provide services to homeless adolescents,

Health Promotion/Community Health Project and Paper: Focus Group of Forest Park Howard Mohr Community Center After-School Program, Forest Park, IL

Over the course of the years the HIV/AIDS pandemic has managed to infiltrate El Paso. Lack of information along with misguided information has contributed to this issue. Unfortunately this issue is not treated as a priority. The number of agencies that focus on the prevention and education of HIV/AIDS is not as big as it ought to be. There are hundreds and hundreds of individuals living in El Paso who are infected with this virus and are unaware of it. Even more shocking is that the highest percentage of these individuals along with those who have been tested belongs to teenagers. The Teen Advisory Board is and organization whose goal is HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. They are partnered with The University Medical Center of El Paso. The

Strengthening community action is instrumental in establishing positive health outcomes in young people. In strengthening community action, various support networks are put into place to not only prevent