Unintentional injury

Violence

Mental health

Substance use

Reproductive health

Nutrition and physical activity

ACPM takes a broad view of adolescent health, recognizing that healthy youth development and safe, nurturing environments are important in helping young people make healthy decisions.

Goals:

ACPM has established the following goals for the project:

• Strengthen ACPM’s leadership, infrastructure, and organizational capacity to address adolescent health.
  

• Improve the ability of ACPM members, health care providers and other health professionals to apply the tools of population medicine and clinical prevention to improve adolescent health, safety and well-being.

• Work and participate actively within an inter-organizational, cross-disciplinary collaborative of PIPPAH program grantees and with HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and other project partners to implement and evaluate activities to promote the four goals of the " National Initiative to Improve Adolescent Health.”

PRODUCTS AND PUBLICATIONS

Time Tools
The Time Tools^TM product series provide physicians, other health providers, and clinical staff with concise, credible, evidence-based clinical prevention guidelines on select topics to enhance knowledge and encourage application of preventive services in key clinical areas.The Adolescent Wellness Exam Time Tool, Adolescent Obesity Time Tool, and Adolescent Depression Time Tool  are web-based, containing links between the documents for easy navigation, offer both CME and MOC credit. The Adolescent Wellness Exam Time Tool is available for download to PDA devices and the Adolescent Obesity Time Tool will offer this feature soon.

Preventive Medicine 2011  
Session 14: Adolescent Mental Health: Screening, Treatment and Access to Care
ACPM convened a session devoted to adolescent mental health during the Preventive Medicine 2011 conference in San Antonio, TX. To access this free CME/MOC archived event, click the above link and select Session 14.

Interview Series
Creating Healthy Opportunities: Conversations with Adolescent Health Experts, was commissioned by the Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH) initiative of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The views presented are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily represent the views of the MCHB, HRSA, or any individual PIPPAH grantee. All interviews were conducted by Karen Brown is a public radio reporter and freelance writer who specializes in health care. Her work frequently appears on NPR and in national magazines and newspapers.

(Download the complete interview series HERE)
(View all of the podcasts and featured interviewee profiles HERE)

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• Jane Brown, PhD, University of North Carolina
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• Angela Diaz, MD, MPH, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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• Abigail English, JD, Center for Adolescent Health & the Law
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• Richard Kreipe, MD, Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong
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ACPM would appreciate your comments on these interviews. Please take a moment to submit a brief feedback form.

Perspectives in Prevention Columns
Occupational Health and Safety in Youth Workers(CME AVAILABLE!)

American Adolescents and Emergency Contraceptive Pill Access (CME AVAILABLE!)Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents: Risk Factor Identification, Screening, and Prevention 

Media and the Adolescent Mind: From Studies to Action

Promoting Healthy Adolescent Development: The View Through a Half-Full Looking Glass

ACPM Staff, Adolescent Health Initiative

Michael A. Barry
Executive Director
Email: mbarry@acpm.org

Michele Surricchio, MPH, CHES
Director of Programs
Email: msurricchio@acpm.orgmnath@acpm.org