The National Coalition for Adolescent Health is a unique consortium of national health professional, advocacy, and research organizations that have active programming in adolescent health issues or identify adolescent health improvement as an important goal of the organization.ACPM hosts the Coalition with support from HRSA/MCHB.

Coalition Members

Coalition Goals

Coalition Products & Resolutions

NCAH Meeting Materials

Coalition Members

The Coalition is comprised of the following organizations:

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Physician Assistants
American Association of Health Plans
American Association of Public Health Physicians
American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
American College of Emergency Physicians
American College Health Association
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American College of Physicians
American College of Preventive Medicine
American Institutes for Research
American Medical Association
American Medical Women’s Association
American Osteopathic Association
American Psychiatric Association
American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry
American Social Health Association
American Society of Addiction Medicine
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Center for Adolescent Health and the Law
Center for Science in the Public Interest
National Association of County and City Health Officials
National Association of School Nurses
National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors
National Medical Association
Society for Adolescent Medicine

Coalition Goals

The two goals of the Coalition are to:

1. Develop mechanisms for encouraging medical and public health organizations to collaborate to improve adolescent health policy

2. Produce high quality, multi-disciplinary adolescent health informational, educational, and policy materials.
   

Coalition Products & Resolutions

• Vaccines for Adolescents: Help Keep Adolescents Healthy and Safe with Immunizations:Template fact sheeton adolescent vaccinations that can be tailored for each organization’s use.
  

• Protecting Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance (SCHIP) Program: Resolution submitted by several organizations that make up the Coalition and passed by the AMA House of Delegates.
  

• HPV Media Messages: Media talking points on HPV vaccinations for organizations working in Adolescent Health
  

• Positive Youth Development Promotion ACPM Resolution

NCAH Meeting Materials

June 29, 2011 Meeting Materials

• Final Meeting Minutes

• Meeting Attachment-Appendix 1-Proposed Medicaid Changes

• Male Adolescents’ Sexual/Reproductive Health & Healthcare (Dr. Arik Marcell)

• Enrollment in Medicaid or CHIP for Youth Involved in Juvenile Justice (Dr. Mary Tierney)

• ABA and the American Bar Association Center on Children and Law Opening Doors Project on Addressing the Needs of LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care.

June 29, 2010 Meeting Materials

Adolescent Preventive Services Panel

• Overview - Arthur Elster, MD, FACPM
• Multiple Risk Behaviors Among US High School Students - Katherine Rogers, Senior Researcher, National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health
• Trust for America’s Health - Karen Hendricks, Policy Director, Trust for America's Health

How Youth View Preventive Services
Question and Answer Session

Confidentiality and Consent

• Consent & Confidentiality in Adolescent Health Care: Past, Present, & Future - Abigail English, JD, Center for Adolescent Health & the Law
• Legal Issues Facing Adolescents - Eva Klain, Esq., Director, Child and Adolescent Health, American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law

Meeting Minutes