Help for Youth Health Centers
The Adolescent Champion Model is a multi-faceted intervention to address a health center’s environment, policies, and practices to ensure that all aspects of a visit to the health center are youth-centered.
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AHI developed the Adolescent Champion Model to drive health centers to become adolescent-centered medical homes. The Champion Model is a multi-faceted intervention to address a health center’s environment, policies, and practices to ensure that all aspects of a visit to the health center are youth-centered.
If you are enrolled in the Adolescent Champion Model, log in below to access the Adolescent Champion Resources using the password provided by your consultant. Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
- The Adolescent-Centered Environment Assessment Process (ACE-AP), a comprehensive health center assessment process addressing a health center’s youth-friendliness
- Quality improvement initiatives focused on best practices in adolescent health care and HEDIS measures
- Spark trainings, or pre-packaged mini-trainings, for health center staff and providers on adolescent-centered care
- Patient, staff, and provider evaluations to assess improvement throughout the process
- Tailored technical assistance, training, and resources to reduce barriers to change and increase opportunities for success
- Maintenance of Certification Part IV, to improve the delivery of confidential care.
The Adolescent Champion Model has received awards from the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, Society for Teachers of Family Medicine, Healthy Teen Network, and Michigan Medicine for its innovative approach to improving adolescent health care.
Adolescent Champion health centers demonstrate significant improvement in the following areas:
- Adolescent patient satisfaction
- Staff perception of adolescent-centered care within their clinic
- Provider comfort and confidence in caring for adolescents
- Provider and staff knowledge of and attitudes toward confidentiality and minor consent laws
- Total number of adolescent visits
- Number of preventive care visits
- Number of behavioral/mental health visits
- Number of behavioral referrals
*All data based on improvements made between baseline and project-end
"The program helped me explain to parents why patient confidentiality is so important. Now the parents have no problem with their teens talking to the doctor directly.”
“I love that the model really gives a voice to an often unheard age group. Through the Adolescent Champion Model, we quickly identified and corrected weaknesses in our adolescent care. Completing the process left myself, the staff, and most importantly, our adolescent patients empowered.”
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