The Leadership Education for Adolescent Health (LEAH)/State Adolescent Health Coordinators (SAHC) Tele conference Series held a tele conference on Thursday, February 21, 2008 from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm ET.  Adolescent Access to Health Care was the topic of the session. Materials from this tele conference are now available for viewing.

On Thursday, November 15, 2007, the Leadership Education for Adolescent Health (LEAH)/State Adolescent Health Coordinators (SAHC) Teleconference Series conducted the second in a two part series on the prevention and treatment of adolescent obesity. The second teleconference focused on Best Practices in Public Health Interventions regarding Adolescent Obesity. Materials from the teleconference are now available.

On Thursday, September 20, 2007, the Leadership Education for Adolescent Health (LEAH)/State Adolescent Health Coordinators (SAHC) Teleconference Series conducted the first in a two part series on the prevention and treatment of adolescent obesity. The first teleconference focused on giving an overview and public health perspective of the new evidence-based Expert Committee Recommendations for the Prevention, Assessment and Treatment of Childhood Obesity. The teleconference also discussed physical activity interventions with an emphasis on the built environment approach. Materials from the teleconference are now available.

The next LEAH / SAHC Teleconference Training Session will be held on

Thursday, November 15th

1:00 - 2:30 PM ET

Complete information for the series is in the attached flyer. 

Please contact Mary Doyle at to register.  Briefly, the teleconference will be the second in a two-part series on Adolescent Obesity.

Adolescent Obesity II

Second in a two-part series on the prevention and treatment of adolescent obesity.

Best Practices in Public Health Interventions Regarding Adolescent Obesity

1. A state level overview of interventions addressing the issue; Recent state approaches: problems and solutions
2. Youth discuss their perspectives on achieving a healthy weight
3. Simple, usable, free tools and practical ways to work with youth to reduce adolescent obesity

Trainers

Patricia Stewart, PhD, RD
Rochester University

and

Roberta H. Anding, MS, RD/LD, CDE, CSSD
Baylor College of Medicine

Video Program: "Teens Talk Healthy Weight"

by Texas Children's Hospital Adolescent Clinic  

The Leadership Education for Adolescent Health (LEAH)/State Adolescent Health Coordinators (SAHC) Tele conference Series held a teleconference on Thursday, May 24th, 2007 from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm ET.  It was the second in a two part series on adolescent mental health issues.  Preventing depression and suicide in adolescents and school and community based mental health services were the topics of the tele conference.  The moderator was David Knopf, LCSW, MPH, LEAH Faculty, Children's Hospital at UCSF.  The presenters were Lloyd Potter Ph.D, MPH, Children's Safety Network and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and Cheryl Di Cara, Maine Injury Prevention Program and Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program.  Materials from this tele conference are now available for viewing.  

Materials from the last SAHC Teleconference, February 2007, are now available for download.  They are organized in the State AH Coordinators section of this website.   

The next LEAH/SAHC tele conference is scheduled for Thursday, February 15, 2007, 1-2:30 pm EST.  

Mental Health l: An overview of mental health issues related to youth:

• Statistics
• Strategies(For dealing with barriers including stigma)
• Screenings
• Systems of care

It will be presented by Gwendolyn J. Adam, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., LEAH faculty at Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children’s Hospital and Matt Aalsma, PhD, LEAH faculty at the Indiana University Medical Center   This session will provide information on mental health issues related to youth in new, interesting and thought provoking ways that will be very useful to State Adolescent Health Coordinators.    The tele conference will follow the typical format of the previous tele conferences; presentation, questions and an opportunity to discuss the topic with national experts.   It is not too late to sign up.  Simply email to register.

The first LEAH/State Adolescent Health Coordinators (SAHC) teleconference
was held on July 20.  In all, 23 SAHC and their invited state-level colleagues participated in the conference which focused on Healthy Youth Development.  Michael Resnick (UMN), Sydney McDonald and Shirley Robinson-Hankins (UAB) taught this first session.  Please click on the State AH Coordinators menu item to access teleconference materials from the first conference.

The second LEAH/SAHC teleconference was held on October 19, 2006.  The call focused on untangling potential adolescent health controversies surrounding HPV, the vaccine for the Human Papilloma virus, emergency contraception, Plan B in particular, and a brief update on the current CDC recommendations on Chlamydia and HIV testing.  Presenters were Erica Monasterio, MSN, RN, FNP, University of California, San Francisco and Mary Ott, MD, Indiana University Medical Center.  The moderator was Mary Doyle, Konopka Institute, University of Minnesota.  Please click on the State AH Coordinators menu item to access teleconference materials from the second conference. 

February 25 - March 1, 2007

Please visit http://adolescent.chsys.org for agenda and registration information.

Sponsor: Department of Pediatrics & Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Maternal & Child Health Bureau, Health Resources & Services Administration, Department of Health & Human Services

Congratulations to Sion Kim Harris, PhD, Boston LEAH faculty member, for winning the 2006 Young Professional Award from the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association for her significant contributions to research, education, community service, and administration in the field of maternal and child health.