Building Effective Referral Systems
Health centers and youth-serving organizations should build formal relationships and develop effective referral systems to ensure young people are aware of and able to access care.
It is important for health centers and youth-serving organizations to build formal relationships and develop effective referral systems to ensure young people are aware of and able to access care. We work with health centers, schools, and community-based organizations to develop and implement strategies to best connect young people in their community to needed health services.
Identify and discuss the roles that school staff can play in facilitating access to health services for students.
Brief, ready-to-use trainings for your multidisciplinary team
AHI Starter Guides are mini-toolkits that offer concrete, actionable steps to improve adolescent care.
Developing or strengthening a partnership between a primary care provider (PCP) and a school-based health center (SBHC) can improve adolescents’ access to health services while decreasing fragmentation and redundancy, leading to better health outcomes.
Creating and maintaining positive relationships between your School-Based Health Center (SBHC) and school can be challenging.
Social media and other online platforms (such as an up-to-date website) can improve health care outcomes for patients by providing them with health messages or identifying locations where they can receive youth-friendly services.
Integrating behavioral health services into a medical center’s structure provides an effective approach to caring for people with substance use disorders and mental health concerns.
Visual cues to help you build and enhance youth-friendly environments
Are you struggling to set up a referral system? Have you had challenges identifying and building relationships with youth-friendly service providers in your community?
