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Youth Involvement
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Investing
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| The health and well-being of California
teens has a major impact on the overall social and economic
health of our state. Today’s teens are tomorrow’s
workforce, parents, and leaders, and their future is shaped
by the opportunities we create for them today. Most parents
make significant personal investments in their children’s
future. Yet as a society, we are not making the investments
necessary to ensure the health and well-being of all of
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• Adolescent health problems
result in great personal, social, and monetary costs.
• California’s adolescent population is
growing, especially in communities where needs are greatest.
• Adolescence offers an opportunity for prevention.
• We can make a difference.
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| More
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| Confidentiality
Rights and Minor Consent Issues in Adolescent Mental Health
DVD Now Available. Click here to order online. |
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| The much anticipated DVD of the
popular Confidentiality and Minor Consent Training is
now available. This training was consistently rated
very highly by attendees in evaluations, and it is now
available for purchase for $19.99 plus shipping and
handling per DVD. Contact Robin Kirkpatrick at robink@californiateenhealth.org
for more information.
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| Core Competencies for Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health
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Developed by a subcommittee of the California Adolescent Sexual Health Workgroup (ASHWG), the Core Competencies are now ready to download.
The Core Competencies for Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health are specifically intended for adult providers and educators of adolescent sexual and reproductive health. They represent the foundation of professional capabilities - knowledge, skills, attitudes - that all providers might strive to possess in order to deliver effective, sensitive, and appropriate sexual and reproductive health programs and services to adolescents.
Programs and agencies might use the Core Competencies to:
- guide the hiring, training, development, and evaluation of staff,
- increase collaboration and cross training between agencies,
- support consistent health outcomes for adolescents, and
- ensure that all programs are grounded in a shared body of knowledge and skills.
The Core Competencies are not intended as requirements or mandates binding a program or an agency to particular standards. They do not represent a curriculum or outline of topics/issues to be taught to adolescents. Rather they are intended as an interdisciplinary guide for providers to be used across various programs and service settings to enhance the level of service delivery and to improve continuity and consistency.
ASHWG is comprised of program managers from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), California Department of Education (CDE), and key non-governmental organizations (NGO) committed to working more effectively to address the sexual and reproductive health of California adolescents.
Download Core Competencies.
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Budget Cuts
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As the California budget crisis continues, the Governor and legislature are proposing cuts of nearly $16 billion dollars in spending from the General Fund to close the budget gap. Critical health, social service and education programs and services for adolescents continue to be threatened with drastic reductions, and in many cases, elimination. Some proposed budget items include:
- Elimination of the Healthy Families health insurance program, which provides coverage to nearly 230,000 teens.
- $750 million reduction in Medi-Cal benefits, eligibility, and provider rates. Medi-Cal serves approximately 20% of California’s teens.
- Cutting $24.6 million from HIV Education and Prevention programs. Adolescence is a critical time for HIV prevention, as it is estimated that 30% of infections occur during the teen years.
- A $20.4 million reduction in funding domestic violence services. Youth ages 16-24 experience the highest per capita rate of intimate partner violence of any age group, a reduction in services of this scale will have a dramatic impact on what is available for teens.
- Elimination of $22 million in grants administered through the State’s Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program. Current grantees include the Adolescent Family Life Program and Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program, both of which serve pregnant and parenting teens.
- Reduction of CalWORKS by nearly $700 million. CalWORKS provides assistance to 15,000 teen parents every month though the Cal-Learn program.
- Placing Cal-Safe, a support program for teen parents, into Tier 3 for funding, which puts it at risk for cuts and elimination.
- Reducing K-12 budget by $8.4 billion which would result in cuts of $1,339 per student.
The Governor’s proposed budget can be accessed at:
http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/
Contact your state legislators and the Governor's office and give your feedback on the budget.
For up-to-date information and talking points on the California budget, refer to:
MCAH Talking Points (PDF)
California Budget Project
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
Health Access
teenNOW California
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ASHWG Data Tables and Charts for Adolescent Births, AIDS and STDs
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The California Adolescent Sexual Health Work Group (ASHWG) is a standing work group of program managers from the California Department of Public Health, California Department of Education, and key non-governmental organizations committed to working more effectively to address the sexual and reproductive health of California adolescents. Its vision is to create a coordinated, collaborative, and integrated system among government and non-government organizations to promote and protect the sexual and reproductive health of youth in California.
The ASHWG Data Integration sub-committee’s intention is to improve comparability and expand access to and use of HIV, STD, and Teen Birth data. Members of this Sub-committee include epidemiologists from California Department of Public Health branches of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Control, Office of AIDS (OA), Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) and non-governmental “end users” of their data.
The ASHWG Data Tables and Charts for Adolescent Births, AIDS and STDs are presented with standardized data elements across all conditions, i.e. age, race, gender, and timeframe. The purpose is to make useable data readily available for improved program planning, implementation and evaluation by programs serving adolescents (at risk).
Download California Adolescent Sexual Health Working Group (ASHWG) 2006 Data for California Adolescent Births, AIDS, STDs.
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