Safe, supportive, and welcoming schools play a pivotal role in ensuring students are engaged in learning and that nothing hinders their ability to achieve their best in the classroom. The School Safety Technical Assistance Council seeks to help all schools in Minnesota ensure that all students regardless of their color, race, religion, gender or sexual […]
Category: Adolescents
Resource: Striving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere (STRYVE)
STRYVE, created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides a user-friendly interface to help public health researchers develop initiatives to prevent youth violence in their communities and measure the intervention’s outcomes and efficacy. Participants are guided in planning, implementation, and evaluation processes and have access to a library of evidence-based practices and data visualization […]
Resource: Youth and Young Adult Mental Health Information (Multiple Sources)
Prevalence and Treatment of Mental Health and Substance Use Problems in the Early Emerging Adult Years in the United States (NAHIC): This 2010 study investigates the mental health status and receipt of services among young adults across multiple outcomes (e.g., race/ethnicity, income, insurance). One major finding was that fewer than 50 percent of young adults […]
The Influence of Health Care Policies on Children’s Health and Development
The Society for Research in Child Development has released their latest Social Policy Report. The latest paper reviews the current state of health insurance for children and youth and contrasts health services with the needs of children and families. It then describes new models of health care, including ones that actively connect health care with other […]
Quick-Guide: National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week
January 25–31, 2016 is National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week. This Quick-Guide will help you participate in this adolescent-related national health observance, especially when using social media. To learn how to use these Quick-Guides, check out the User Guide. To access our other Quick-Guides, visit:www.epi.umn.edu/mch/resources/factsheets.
January Quick-Guides: Stalking Awareness & Cervical Health Awareness
January is National Stalking Awareness Month and Cervical Health Awareness Month. Our Quick-Guides will help you participate in these adolescent-related national health observances, especially when using social media. To learn how to use these Quick-Guides, check out the User Guide. To access our other Quick-Guides, visit: www.epi.umn.edu/mch/resources/factsheets.
UMN MCH Alumni Dr. Robert Blum Discusses Global Early Adolescent Study
On Friday, December 4, 2015, SPH MCH alumni Dr. Robert Blum presented The Global Early Adolescent Study: A 15-country Study to Explore the Acquisition and Influence of Gender Norms in a Global Context. The age period from 10-14 years is among the most critical for human development, yet one of the most poorly understood. Biological processes are […]
National Bullying Prevention Month Quick-Guide
This Quick-Guide, created by the Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health in collaboration with the State Adolescent Health Resource Center created this guide to help those who want to do more to participate in adolescent-related national health observances like National Bullying Prevention Month (October). The National Bullying Prevention Month Quick-Guide can help you distribute important messages about […]
Free Online Modules from the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare’s online modules are self-directed learning opportunities for child welfare professionals, foster parents, advocates, and others interested in the topics. They were developed in order to present the child welfare practice-relevant findings of research undertaken by faculty and staff at the School of Social Work as well as […]
HPV Vaccine Video for Health Care Providers
The Minnesota Department of Health has created a 12-minute video for health care providers on HPV vaccine communication. The video demonstrates low-stress ways of recommending HPV vaccine and answering questions from patients and parents. Video Highlights: How to communicate HPV vaccine’s effectiveness, necessity, and safety. Click here to WATCH the video.
Applying Social Determinants of Health to Public Health Practice
Public Health Reports released a supplement on the social determinants of health. The supplement seeks to advance scientific knowledge and illustrate how public health professionals can address social determinants of health across a range of public health activities that promote health equity among the populations most disproportionately […]
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
The County Health Rankings and Roadmaps program is a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The County Health Rankings provide the rank of health of nearly every county in the nation and help counties to understand what influences how healthy residents are. Measures available include high […]
Factsheets About the Affordable Care Act and MCH Populations
The Affordable Care Act: Basic Provisions and Implications for Maternal and Child Health Populations We at the Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health put together a series of factsheets about the Affordable Care Act in September 2013 to describe some of its provisions and implications for specific populations. Each of the […]
Emergency Contraception should be Available over-the-counter for Youth under age 17
By Nancy Pitsenbarger *Pitsenbarger is a Maternal and Child Health MPH student at the University of Minnesota. In July 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded over-the-counter (OTC) access to emergency contraception (EC) for individuals aged 17 and older. In December of 2011, the FDA was poised to expand OTC access to EC to […]
STIs at a Peak in Minnesota
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on a rise in Minnesota. From 2010 to 2011, there was an 8% increase in bacterial-related cases. Chlamydia, for example, has more than doubled from its dip seen in 1996. This data—from Minnesota Department of Health’s (MDH) 2011 Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Statistics Report—includes information on Minnesota’s most commonly reported […]