Creating and Sustaining Adolescent-Centered Health Programs E-Learning Modules

This three-part e-learning series will equip health center staff with innovative strategies in service delivery, quality, and community engagement. The content focuses on increasing health center staff’s knowledge and skills related to culturally respectful care and adolescent-friendly health center environments. The series also includes content on collaborating with youth to inform health centers’ programs, care … Read more

Creating and Sustaining Adolescent-Centered Health Programs Webinar

This webinar highlighted what quality adolescent care looks like through the voices and experiences of young people. Featuring youth leaders and members of the School-Based Health Alliance’s Youth Advisory Council, the session offered practical strategies for creating engaging, responsive, and accessible care. Participants explored how youth perspectives can shape best practices in patient engagement, trust-building, … Read more

Reflections from ‘Be the Change’ 2024

Our 2024 ‘Be the Change’ Youth Training Program was our best yet! We had 37 incredible youth attendees from 17 states, eight youth co-led presentations, and 14 total youth presenters. Students engaged with workshops on the importance of social media in marketing school-based health services and innovations in school-based food insecurity programming, talked with adult … Read more

The Youth Leadership Advisory Council for The Fort Smith Public School’s SBHC Deliver Peer-to-Peer Education Every Quarter

The School-Based Health Center of Fort Smith Public Schools (FSPS), located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, opened in July 2021. Since that time, they have developed a thriving Youth Leadership Advisory Council (YLAC). YLAC is made up of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders who attend Darby Middle School, the campus on which the FSPS School-Based Health … Read more