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ESM 10.1 Percent of youth-serving programs that provide training on adult preparation subjects, such as accessing health insurance, maintaining their routine preventive medical visits, healthy relationships, effective communication, financial literacy, etc. (New York)

Evidence Level: No similar strategy found in the established evidence for this NPM. See similar ESMs for this NPM or search for other strategies or promising practices.

Alignment with field-based evidence through Innovation Hub: Best Practice. Aligns with community-level strategy as documented by the PATCH Teen Educator Program: A Replicable, Youth-Driven Intervention to Improve the wy Adolescents Receive, Experience, and Utilize Health Care in AMCHP's Innovation Hub.

Measurement Quadrant: Quadrant 2: Measuring quality of effort (% of reach; satisfaction)

Service Type: Enabling services level of pyramid

Essential Public Health Services: 7. Assure effective and equitable health systems

Service Recipient: Activities directed to families/children/youth

Goal: The baseline value for this measure, taken from a 6-month program period of 7/1/2020 – 12/31/20, is 96.3%. The program has set an improvement target of 100% by 2025.

Numerator: Number of youth-serving programs that provide training on adult preparation subjects for adolescents with and without special health care needs to prepare them for a transition into adulthood

Denominator: Number of youth-serving programs that provide training on adult preparation subjects for adolescents with and without special health

Significance: Adolescence is a critical stage of development when children grow physically, cognitively, emotionally, and socially to become adults. The lifestyle choices, behaviors, and relationships established during this time can affect an adolescent’s current and future health. Comprehensive and inclusive reproductive health care and education are opportunities to help adolescents avoid or mitigate risky sexual behaviors. Title V Programs also provide enabling services to adolescents, such as referrals to and linkages with community services and social supports to holistically address health and wellness, including mental health and social determinants of health.

Data Sources and Data Issues: Data for this measure will come from biannual reports and annual data requests submitted by local adolescent health providers.

Year: 2023

Unit Type: Percentage, Unit Number: 100

ESM 10.1 Develop and disseminate a teen-centered Adolescent Informational Resource (AIR) in collaboration with community health and youth service providers to promote adolescent health and annual wellness visits (Hawaii)

Evidence Level: Emerging. Aligns with MCHbest strategy "Patient Reminders/Navigator Program". https://www.mchevidence.org/tools/strategies/10-2.php Find other NPM 10 l strategies in MCHbest. https://www.mchevidence.org/tools/strategies/search/refine.php?NPM=10

Alignment with field-based evidence through Innovation Hub: Aligns with Innovation Hub's Adolescent-Centered Environment Assessment Process and PATCH Toolkits programs https://amchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ACE-AP-Implementation-Handout_Final-3-25-20.pdf https://amchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Emerging-Handout-PATCH-Toolkits.pdf

Measurement Quadrant: Quadrant 1: Measuring quantity of effort (counts and "yes/no" activities)

Service Type: Enabling services level of pyramid

Essential Public Health Services: 3. Inform and educate the public

Service Recipient: Activities related to systems-building

Goal: Increase resources, training and practice improvement support for adolescent health and service providers to promote wellness and healthcare visits aligned to Bright Futures.

Numerator: Total Actual Score from Adolescent Health Data Collection Form

Denominator: Total Possible Score from Adolescent Health Data Collection Form (30 total)

Significance: Adolescence is a period of major physical, psychological and social development and the initiation of risky behaviors as teens move from childhood toward adulthood. Teens assume individual responsibility for health habits. An annual preventive well visit may help teens adopt or maintain health habits and behaviors and avoid health damaging behaviors. The Bright Futures guidelines recommend that teens have an annual checkup from age 11-21 years, however many do not. Barriers include: • Lack of awareness of guidelines • Perception that the AWC lacks value • Unaware or variability of insurance coverage and follow up services • High utilization of sports physicals instead of AWC • Inconsistent practices addressing confidentiality • Lack of medical home • Lack of knowledge of community resources. The ART and collaboration with community/youth service providers will help to address many of these barriers and build the knowledge base of professionals working with youth.

Data Sources and Data Issues: This is a summary of the Data Collection Form that lists 10 strategy components organized by the following domains: • Collaboration • Engagement to Develop the Adolescent Resource Toolkit • Workforce Development Training for Community Stakeholders Each item is scored from 0-3 (0=not met; 1=partially met; 2=mostly met; 3=completely met), with a maximum total of 30. Scoring is completed by Adolescent Health staff, with input from key partners.

Year: 2023

Unit Type: Scale, Unit Number: 30
   

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