Products

Center for Adolescent Health products inform our local community, including research participants, university faculty and students, local youth-serving agencies, residents and policy makers about the Center’s work, including research results and possible applications, both programmatic and policy. The Center also strives to ensure these products are useful to our broader community, including state- and national-level policy makers, state and national youth-serving and advocacy organizations, and other adolescent health researchers.

The Center for Adolescent Health views communication as a vital piece of its work. Creating a communication feedback loop with our local community holds researchers at the Center accountable for the work in which they engage. Collaborating with the local community to disseminate the Center’s work ensures that researchers appropriately interpret results and that the results are readily available for application in the community. Overall, this furthers the Center’s mission of improving the health status of young people in Baltimore City and allows researchers to connect with other organizations engaged in similar work. Through the dissemination of Center work to our broader community, the Center is able to extend its reach and increase its visibility beyond Baltimore City, further enhancing its ability to impact the health and well-being of young people. 

Media

Ensuring that research is accessible to the intended audience often requires developing media beyond print publications. The following projects used creative means of dissemination:

• Coordinated School Health Programs (CSHP) Video Project: Short training video describing the components of a coordinated school health program and accompanying workbooks for school staff development. Additional materials include a CSHP reference list with academic citations and abstracts for over 150 resources and a listing of CSHP program resources for schools.
• See the Baltimore Sun slide show compiled after the Youth Advisory Committee's (YAC) exhibit on November 1, 2006. The slide show also features audio commentary from YAC members.
• Listen to a broadcast of the BBC's "The World," featuring JHSPH graduate student Tilly Gurman commenting on her Spanish-language soap opera created to educate Latina women about health care access.
• Read about homeless youth in the four-part Baltimore Sun series "On Their Own"—Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four.
• Read the adolescent health article in the Spring 2005 edition of Johns Hopkins Public Health magazine. Members of the HOPE Project's Peer Leadership Group were interviewed for the Fall 2006 edition.
• Shifting the Lens: A Focus on Stress and Coping among East Baltimore African-American Adolescents
• "Consequences" Public Service Announcement produced by the Youth Advisory Committee (YAC)

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