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Oah/cdc's integrating services, programs, and strategies through a community-wide initiative: Ensuring culturally and linguistically appropriate programs and reproductive health care services to youth though the implementation of the working with diverse communities strategies guided by best practice

Monday, November 4, 2013

Lisa Romero, DrPH, MPH , Division of Reproductive Health, Adolescent Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Taleria Fuller, PhD , Division of Reproductive Health/Adolescent Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Myriam Hernandez Jennings, MA , JSI Research and Training Institute, Boston, MA
Naomi Clemmons, MPH , JSI Research and Training Institute, Boston, MA
Tajan Braithwaite Renderos, MPH , JSI Research and Training, Inc., Boston, MA
Alexia Eslan, MBA , JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., Denver, CO
Despite recent declines, U.S. teen birth rates remain higher than rates in other industrialized nations and racial/ethnic disparities persist. To fully engage and work with diverse communities (WDC), strategies guided by best practice, with demonstrated effectiveness, can be used to: inform and address the needs of diverse populations; identify, reach, and serve hard-to-reach youth with teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) programs and services; engage and recruit a diverse group of community partners who are not typically engaged to collaborate in their community's TPP efforts; provide evidence-based programs that meet the needs of youth from diverse communities and retain youth in those programs; ensure that program facilitators and clinical providers have the necessary skills and knowledge to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate programs and adolescent friendly clinical reproductive health services; and engage and educate a diverse group of community stakeholders on the root causes of teen pregnancy and how social determinants of health are linked to teen pregnancy. This presentation will provide a comprehensive list of strategies guided by best practice for use in working with diverse communities, corresponding assessment tools to ensure consistent and quality implementation of said best practices, and lessons learned during the implementation of the WDC best practices from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) Teen Pregnancy Prevention Project, a community-wide demonstration project to reduce rates of teen pregnancy and births in communities with the highest rates, focusing on African American and Latino/Hispanic youth aged 15–19 years.

Learning Areas:
Diversity and culture
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs

Learning Objectives:
Describe how to identify, reach, and serve hard-to-reach youth with teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) programs and contraceptive and reproductive health care services. Provide adolescent-specific strategies guided by best practices for use in working with diverse communities. Describe tools to ensure the consistent and quality implementation of best practices Identify strategies to address the challenges or barriers to effective best practice implementation.

Keywords: Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Cultural Competency

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: As a Health Scientist with CDC/Division of Reproductive Health/Adolescent and Reproductive Health Team, Dr. Romero provides technical, scientific and programmatic support in implementing key components of the “Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Integrating, Programs, and Strategies through Community-wide Initiatives” project. Dr. Romero was formerly a Health Scientist with CDC/Division of Adolescent School Health where she served as content expert and advisor in research application of intervention and surveillance studies related to sexual risk behaviors among school-age populations.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.