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Adolescent Health Working Group

Description

Founded in 1998, the Adolescent Health Working Group is a public/private community collaborative that works with health care providers, administrators, policy makers, and youth advocates to ensure that young people have unimpeded access to high quality health services by: · Advocating for policies that ensure health insurance and access to comprehensive care, · Producing tools and trainings that increase providers' capacity to effectively serve youth, · Conducting direct youth outreach to help young people become wise consumers of health care, and · Convening stakeholders for information sharing, networking and other field building activities. The AHWG's achievements in these areas have been possible through the hard work of a small staff, contributions of an active 16-member Steering Committee and collaboration with participants from our 200-member network of adolescent health stakeholders.

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Constituents At-risk youth Gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender Homeless Immigrant/refugee Low-income People of color People with AIDS/HIV People with disabilities Prisoners/the incarcerated Students Youth (age 13-18) Other (please indicate)

Strategies Coalition work Direct services Education Events Grassroots organizing Leadership development Public policy/regulatory reform Training/technical assistance

Keyword Adolescent health healthcare young youth at-risk vulnerable insurance risk girls women