ACT for Adolescent Health provider resources
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Racial Equity in Adolescent Health Care |
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Wednesday, November 17
12:00-4:30 PM EST (Virtual)
Adolescent Health Initiative
Registration is open for the Connection Session "Racial Equity in Adolescent Health Care: Developing an Anti-Racist Practice." This virtual event will broaden participants' understanding of the intersections of structural racism, medical mistrust, and bias related to the historical and present landscape of adolescent health care. The event will support attendees in developing actionable strategies to address bias and introduce anti-racist principles into their professional practice.
AHI’s Connection Sessions are day-long conferences that focus on one topic in adolescent health for an interdisciplinary audience of physicians, nurses, social workers, health center managers, and other youth-serving community professionals. Continuing Education Credits are available.
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CEI/AHEC Upstate Transgender Health Conference
New York State HIV Primary Care and Prevention Center of Excellence
Clinical Education Initiative, AIDS Institute, New York State Department of Health
November 10, 2021
8:30am-12:30pm (Virtual)
Free to New York State clinicians, this virtual conference offers up to 3 credits of either CME, CNE, or CPE credit. Register for each session separately:
- Transgender-Affirming Primary Care
- Transgender Care and Hormone Therapy
- Providing Care to Transgender Adolescents and Young Adults
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Explaining the Black-White Disparity in Preterm Birth: A Consensus Statement from a Multi-Disciplinary Scientific Work Group
Frontiers in Reproductive Health
In 2017–2019, the March of Dimes convened a workgroup with biomedical, clinical, and epidemiologic expertise to review knowledge of the causes of the persistent Black-White disparity in preterm birth. This article presents their findings. Racism is the only factor identified that directly or indirectly could explain the racial disparities in the plausible midstream/downstream causes and the observed social patterning.
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STI Treatment Guidelines 2021
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC’s Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Treatment Guidelines, 2021 provides current evidence-based prevention, diagnostic, and treatment recommendations that replace the 2015 guidance. The recommendations are intended to be a source for clinical guidance.
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Providing Adolescent-Centered
Virtual Care
Adolescent Health Initiative
Health centers have rapidly adapted to virtual care due to COVID-19, and virtual care is here to stay. Adolescents and young adults need a unique approach to telehealth as they become more independent while grappling with issues such as privacy and trust in their health care provider. AHI provides resources to help providers improve their adolescent-centered virtual care.
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Autism and Neurodiversity |
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Professional Development and Support |
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ECHO Autism Communities: Professionals
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The ECHO Autism Learning Network brings together developmental pediatricians, child psychologists, child/adolescent psychiatrists, dietitians, resource coordinators, and parent advocate/educators. Through Project ECHO, providers are able to care for patients in their own practice with the support of nationally recognized autism experts. Virtual ECHO Autism meetings happen on a regular schedule all over the world to discuss complex cases and offer real-time advice. Free CME is available.
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Autism Treatment Network Care Model Manual
Autism Care Network
This technical manual offers autism providers and medical facilities a basic structure for delivering the Autism Care Network’s model of autism care to better serve children, teens, and families. The manual also provides primary-care physicians one-page summaries on how to support and serve children with related health conditions.
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Identifying and Caring for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
American Academy of Pediatrics
This free course will increase knowledge among pediatric clinicians on evidence-based practices for screening, evaluation, and referral for diagnosis and management of children with autism spectrum disorder.
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AASPIRE Healthcare Toolkit for Healthcare Providers
Academic-Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education
With a focus on primary care, the AASPIRE toolkit for providers offers sections on autism information, diagnosis, and referrals; caring for patients on the spectrum; legal and ethical considerations; resources; patient forms and worksheets; and an accommodations tool.
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Autism Speaks Tool Kit
Autism Speaks
This toolkit allows the user to select the audience (e.g., health care provider), patient age range and level of support needed, and resource type to generate a list of relevant resources.
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The Healthcare Guide to Cultural Competence and the Autism Spectrum |
University of Rochester Medical Center, Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities
Catina Burkett, LSW, used her lived experience as a Black, female person with autism to develop this cultural competence guide for health care providers.
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Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Other Related Disabilities (LEND) Training Program
HRSA Maternal and Child Health
The LEND Program provides interdisciplinary training to enhance the clinical expertise and leadership skills of professionals dedicated to caring for children with neurodevelopmental and other related disabilities, including autism. There are 52 LEND programs funded through the Autism CARES Act.
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Practicing in New York State |
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URMC ECHO Autism and Developmental Disorders
University of Rochester Medical Center
Center for Experiential Learning
ECHO Autism & DD is a virtual learning network of medical providers that allows for real-time access to experts in autism and other developmental disorders. This ECHO aims to support pediatric & family medicine primary care teams in Western New York in the care of children and youth with autism and other developmental disorders through telementoring and case-based learning.
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Levine Autism Clinic at Golisano Children’s Hospital
University of Rochester Medical Center
The Levine Autism Clinic at Golisano Children’s Hospital in Rochester is home to one of the federal Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) interdisciplinary training programs and is also an Autism Treatment Network site associated with Autism Speaks.
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Why Neurodiversity Matters in Health Care
Aspen Institute
“There are enormous gifts that are literally being withheld from the world by virtue of how we frame mental differences and how we normalize a neurotypical viewpoint.” In this short video and blog post, Jenara Nerenberg discusses new perspectives on autism and mental health.
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Autism Diagnosis Criteria Explained
Yo Samdy Sam
The autism diagnosis criteria are written for professional use and are therefore shrouded in somewhat opaque language. In this video, Yo Samdy Sam explains the DSM criteria for autism diagnosis with real-world examples and questions the medical, deficit-based model of autism.
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network seeks to advance the principles of the disability rights movement with regard to autism. ASAN believes that the goal of autism advocacy should be a world in which autistic people enjoy equal access, rights, and opportunities.
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Autism Spectrum and Gender |
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Neurodiversity and Gender-Diverse Youth: An Affirming Approach to Care
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National LGBT Health Education Center
Evidence suggests that neurodiverse people, particularly those on the autism spectrum, are more likely to be gender diverse and have a lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or asexual sexual orientation, compared to neurotypical people. This publication presents recommendations for guiding youth with autism in exploring their gender identity development.
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Autism and Co-occurring Conditions |
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Anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Asperger/Autism Network
Todd Levine, MD, discusses symptom evaluation, medication, and dilemmas in treating anxiety in people with autism. Dr. Levine is associate clinical professor in Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University.
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Why it is Imperative to Ask Autistic Adolescents about Bullying
Spectrum
This opinion piece describes a study of the clinical records of autistic adolescents, demonstrating high rates of bullying and subsequent suicidality.
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Health Status and Health Care Use Among Adolescents Identified with and without Autism
CDC: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
This study confirms previous research indicating that physical difficulties and co-occurring mental health or other conditions are prevalent among adolescents identified with autism in early childhood. Approximately one in five had physical difficulties, and approximately three in five had additional mental health or other conditions, such as ADHD or anxiety. Compared with adolescents in the control group, those with autism were 90% more likely to have additional mental health or other conditions, yet three times more likely to have an unmet health care service need.
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This newsletter was developed with funding provided by the New York State Department of Health Bureau of Women, Infant and Adolescent Health. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the ACT for Youth Center for Community Action and do not necessarily represent the views of the New York State Department of Health. |
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