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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
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
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.