Children, Youth & Families

Youth-Centered Health Care: Practical & Modern Strategies for Meeting the Needs of Adolescent and Young Adult Patients

Adolescents and young adults (ages 12–24) face a wide range of challenges—including housing instability, food insecurity, and family stressors—that impact both immediate and long-term health outcomes. This tip sheet, developed by the Connected Communities Health Initiative (CCHI), outlines strategies and models that community health centers can adopt to positively influence the health and wellness of […]

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Understanding Harm Reduction Approaches to Address Intimate Partner Violence, Human Trafficking, Exploitation and Homelessness in Health Centers

Webinar Description:  Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation and National Health Care for the Homeless Council are co-hosting a webinar on the intersection of intimate partner violence (IPV), human trafficking (HT), exploitation (E) and homelessness. The webinar will explore ways health center staff can apply a harm reduction approach when providing care for patients who

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Family Care Curriculum

Presented by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia This six-week program uses a train-the-trainer model, which combines attachment and trauma theory to train clinicians to help parents address their children’s developmental, emotional, and cultural needs while experiencing the stressors of homelessness. Visit Website (Link)

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Measures Review Database

Presented by National Child Traumatic Stress Network and SAMHSA funded Free online searchable database that provides clinicians and researchers with in-depth information to enable them to choose the best instrument to assess children and adolescents who have experienced trauma. The Measures Review Database fills an important gap in the field. Its purpose is to promote

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Building Partnerships To Enhance Equitable Children’s Healthcare: A Roadmap

Social justice and health care are inextricably linked, and an important aspect of social justice is the ability to have fair access to health care and to be taken seriously within the healthcare and social services systems. Health care is not equitable if it is not accessible, and there are still immense gaps in terms

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Unhoused Youth in LA: A Perspective on Providing Health Care from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Youth experiencing homelessness is a multi-faceted problem that combines the complications of being unhoused along with the complexities of adolescence. The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles has been providing health care to this population for more than 40 years in the Los Angeles area. This presentation will share how staff utilizes principles of harm reduction

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