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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.”
Products and Publications
Creating Healthy Opportunities:
Conversations with Adolescent Health
Experts,
A project of the Partners in Program
Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH)
Initiative.
ACPM, in collaboration with the Partners
in Program Planning for Adolescent Health
(PIPPAH) initiative, is pleased to release
a series of print interviews featuring:
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Shay Bilchik, JD, Georgetown University
Public Policy Institute
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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
(Download the complete interview series
HERE)
The interviews were commissioned by the
PIPPAH initiative of the Maternal and
Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
and were conducted by Karen Brown, a
public radio reporter and freelance
journalist who specializes in health care.
ACPM would appreciate your comments on the
paper. Please take a moment to submit a
brief feedback form .
Perspectives in Prevention
Columns:
American Adolescents and Emergency
Contraceptive Pill Access: Moving Beyond
Politics (CME
AVAILABLE!)
Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents:
Risk Factor Identification, Screening, and
Prevention (CME
AVAILABLE!)
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.org
Phone: 202-466-2044 ext. 107
Maya Nath
Project
Assistant
Email:
mnath@acpm.org
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