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ACPM’s Adolescent
Health Center
ACPM’s
Adolescent Health Initiative
The American College of Preventive
Medicine (ACPM), through its cooperative
agreement with HRSA’s Office of Adolescent
Health, is strengthening its leadership,
organizational capacity and infrastructure
to address adolescent health within the
specialty of preventive medicine and
across the medical and public health
sectors.
ACPM aims
to address adolescent health outcomes or
risk factors, using the
Healthy People 2010 21 Critical Objectives
for Adolescents and Young Adults as a
guide. ACPM is focusing on the six major
health priorities defined by Healthy
People 2010:
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:
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Strengthen ACPM’s leadership,
infrastructure, and organizational
capacity to address adolescent health.
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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.
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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.”
ACPM Staff,
Adolescent Health Initiative
Michael A.
Barry
Executive Director
Email:
mbarry@acpm.org
Michele
Surricchio, MPH, CHES
Director of Programs
Email:
msurricchio@acpm.org
Phone: 202-466-2044 ext. 107
Maya Nath
Project
Assistant
Email:
mnath@acpm.org
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