Improving Adolescent Care
Training presented by NYPATH & Hudson Headwaters' CAPP Grant
Are you providing the best reproductive and supportive care to your adolescent patients?
Do you know what barriers young people face when seeking and receiving reproductive health services? What are the social contexts & developmental challenges of LGBTQ youth? Do understand NY State laws regarding consent & confidentiality? How do you take a sexual history of an adolescent patient? What strategies as a healthcare provider could you implement to improve the services you provide to your adolescent patients?
If these are areas where you could improve your practice and care for adolescents, please join us for an educational day hosted by NYPATH (New York Promoting & Advancing Teen Health) and the Teen Awareness Group (a Hudson Headwaters CAPP Grant program).
The sessions are FREE and CME credits are available for medical providers. Registration required...R.S.V.P. for each session below!
NYPATH & CAPP Adolescent Care Training: Session 1: Adolescent Sexual History Taking
This session provides clinicians with the ability to:
- Identify barriers to adolescent seeking and receiving health services;
- Understand NY State laws surrounding consent and confidentiality;
- Take a sexual history of an adolescent patient; and
- Increase personal comfort level and confidence when taking sexual histories from adolescent patients.
Thursday, Dec 3, 2015, 10:00 AM
5 Broad Street, Queensbury, NY
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
NYPATH & CAPP Adolescent Care Training: Session 2: Providing Competent Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) Care
This session provides clinicians with the ability to:
- Understand the social context and developmental challenges of LGBTQ youth, and the impact on their lives;
- Describe barriers to accessing healthcare for LGBTQ youth; and
- Identify strategies to provide LGBTQ and youth competent healthcare into your practice.
Session 2 will take place in the HHHN Training Center (located in the CVS Plaza). Registration required...please R.S.V.P. below for this session.
Thursday, Dec 3, 2015, 01:00 PM
5 Main Street, Queensbury, NY, United States
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
Our Presenter: Dr. Uri Belkind, MD, MS, Clinical Director, Health Outreach to Teens (HOTT) Program, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Dr. Belkind is an Adolescent Medicine physician and pediatrician. Originally from Mexico, he obtained his medical degree, at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, after which he moved to Rotterdam in The Netherlands to complete a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology.
He completed his residency in Pediatrics at Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami, where he served as Chief Resident.
He was later accepted as a post-doctoral fellow in Adolescent Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, where he continued to pursue his goal of providing quality healthcare to young LGBTQ patients and developed a great passion for teaching other physicians about the added challenges that this population faces. He has given multiple talks on this topic to different kinds of healthcare providers and helped write “The Recommendations for Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adolescents: A Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine”
Dr. Belkind is currently the Clinical Director of the Health Outreach to Teens (HOTT) program at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York City, a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary program designed specifically to meet the medical and mental health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning adolescents and young adults ages 13-24.
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An exciting initiative for healthcare providers who serve adolescents in primary and specialty care.
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The TAG (Teen Awareness Group) program of Hudson Headwaters provides evidence-based educational programming as well as promotes increased access to confidential reproductive health services for youth. The goal of these efforts is to reduce local teen pregnancy, STI/STD’s and HIV/AIDS rates; thereby improving health outcomes for young people within Warren and Washington counties. Programming is both school and community based and available FREE to teens throughout the region. Visit our website (www.teenawareness.net) or look for us on Facebook...Teen Awareness of Warren and Washington Counties!