Appendix A
Community Forum Agenda and Participants
AGENDA
A National Community Forum on Adolescent Health Care
November 6, 2006
Keck Center of The National Academies
Washington, DC
Forum Goal:
Identify the organizational and contextual factors that should enhance the delivery of adolescent health care services.
Engage in presentations and discussion around the following questions:
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What are the strengths of current adolescent health care services and settings?
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What are the weaknesses in current adolescent health care services and settings?
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Where are the opportunities to enhance and improve adolescent health care services and settings?
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What are the threats to adolescent health care services and settings?
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What vulnerable populations are not particularly well served through the current health care services and settings?
PROGRAM
Welcome, Introduction, and Overview
Moderator: Robert Lawrence, MD, Committee Chair
Background and Overview of Forum
Shay Bilchik, JD, Committee Member
SESSION 1:
VULNERABLE POPULATIONS PERSPECTIVE
Moderator: Eduardo Ochoa, MD, Committee Member
Session 1 Goals:
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What is the size/make-up of this adolescent population?
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What is the state of access and use of health care services for this adolescent population? What key changes have occurred over time?
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What are the gaps in services for this adolescent population? How can these gaps be filled? What special training issues require attention for health care providers?
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What outcomes should be measured to monitor access and use of health care for this adolescent population?
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What are the promising initiatives for the access and use of health care services?
PANEL 1
Health Care Experiences in Foster Care
Matthew Morton, Stetson University, Florida
Health Care Experiences of Uninsured Youth
Shawn Semelsberger, Traverse City, Michigan
Health Care Experiences of Youth with Disabilities
Paul Fogle, Middletown, Pennsylvania
Discussion of Panel 1
PANEL 2
Health Care of Youth with Border Health Issues
Salvador Balcorta, Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe Inc., El Paso
Health Care of Unattached/Homeless Youth
Alan Shapiro, MD, South Bronx Children and Family Health Center
Health Care of Low-Income Youth
Coleen DeFlorimonte, MSN, CPNP, Woodson High School Adolescent Wellness Center, Washington, DC
Discussion of Panel 2
SESSION 2:
SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE
Moderator: Sarah Brown, Committee Member
Session 2 Goals:
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What are the particular health needs of the populations served by the setting? What health care services are routinely covered in their programs? What are areas of significant challenge or gaps?
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How consistent or intermittent is insurance coverage for adolescents and what are the associated problems?
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What arrangements would help strengthen the services provided or address the gaps that now occur? Do significant opportunities exist to create public/private partnerships that could enhance the capacity?
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How does the system seek to coordinate its services? Who manages the referral systems and how are case management services financed? Identify significant policy, organizational, financial, legal, and training issues (gaps, promising initiatives, barriers) with health care services to adolescents and the coordination of care with other providers.
PANEL 1
Nongovernmental Settings
Kristin Adams, PhD, Girls Inc.
Rural Settings
Kathaleen Perkins, MD, West Virginia University
Urban Settings
Rhonda Braxton, The Door, New York
Schools
Linda Juszczak, DNS, National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
Discussion of Panel 1
PANEL 2
Managed Care Provider
Charles Wibbelsman, MD, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco
Publicly Financed Institutions (juvenile justice/foster care)
Dianne Ewashko, New York State Office of Children and Family Services
Local Government
Josh Sharfstein, MD, Baltimore City Health Department, Maryland
Discussion of Panel 2
PUBLIC FORUM
Moderator: Shay Bilchik, JD, Committee Member
CLOSING
PARTICIPANTS
Kristin Adams, Girls Incorporated National Resource Center
Trina Anglin, Office of Adolescent Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration
Kelita Bak, Camp Fire USA
Salvador Balcorta, Centro de Salud Familiar Le Fe Inc.
Brenda Barron, National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
Linda H. Bearinger,* School of Nursing, University of Minnesota
Shay Bilchik,* Center for Juvenile Justice Reform and Systems Integration, Georgetown University
Rhonda Braxton, The Door
Sarah Brown,* The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Rosemary Chalk, Board on Children, Youth, and Families
Laurie Chassin,* Department of Psychology, Arizona State University
Sharron Corle, Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
Coleen DeFlorimonte, Woodson High School Adolescent Wellness Center, Washington, DC
Gordon H. DeFriese, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Debra Delgado, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Mark Del Monte, Department of Federal Affairs, American Academy of Pediatrics
Elise Desjardins, Grantmakers in Health
Thomas DeWitt, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Nancy Dubler,* Montefiore Medical Center
Burton Edelstein,* College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University
Dianne Ewashko, Division of Strategic Planning and Policy Development, New York Office of Children and Family Services
Kathleen Ferrier, Girl Scouts of the USA
Paul Fogle, Middletown, PA
Harriette Fox,* Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center
Michele Gains, University of California, Los Angeles, Martin Luther King/Charles R. Drew Medical Center
V.J. Gibbins, Camp Cedar
Pauline Ginsberg, Utica College
Mark Goldstein, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Kathi Grasso, U.S. Department of Justice
LaVerne Green, School-Based Health Programs, Health Resources and Services Administration
Bethany Hardy, Institute of Medicine Office of Reports and Communications
Lynne Haverkos, Pediatric Behavior and Health Promotion Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Karen Hendricks, Department of Federal Affairs, American Academy of Pediatrics
Catherine Hess, National Academy for State Health Policy
Elizabeth Hoffman, Subcommittee on Education and Early Childhood Development, Senator Chris Dodd, Ranking Member
Charles Irwin, Jr.,* School of Medicine, University of California, San, Francisco
Kayla Jackson, National Network for Youth
Jennifer Joseph, National Association of County & City Health Officials
Linda Juszczak, National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
Kelly Kelleher,* Columbus Children’s Research Institute, The Ohio State University
Genevieve Kenney,* Urban Institute, Washington, DC
Eva Klane, American Bar Association Center Children and the Law
Kathryn Kushner, National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation
Robert S. Lawrence,* Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University
Julia Graham Lear,* School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Prevention and Community Health, The George Washington University
Jonathan Lever, YMCA Activate America
Susan Lin, Columbia University
Keith Loud, Northeast Ohio Universities’ College of Medicine, Adolescent Health Services, Akron Children’s Hospital
Jennifer Maehr, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Arik Marcell, Departments of Pediatrics and Population, Family & Reproductive Health, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Stephen Mautner, National Academies Press
John McInerney, National Academy for State Health Policy
Hugh McIntosh, Consultant
Elaine McLaughlin, Food and Nutrition Service/USDA, National 4H Headquarters, Families, 4-H and Nutrition, Cooperative, State Research, Education and Extension Service
Matthew Morton, Stetson University
Eduardo Ochoa, Jr.,* Section of General Pediatrics, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Pat Paluzzi, Healthy Teen Network
Kathaleen Perkins, West Virginia University
Janis Richter, Partnership for Youth Transition
Frederick P. Rivara,* Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle
C. Anita Robinson, The Catholic University of America
Jennifer Rogers, American College of Preventive Medicine
Vinod K. Sahney,* Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Laura Schiebelhut, Child Welfare League of America
Sarah Schulman, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Mark A. Schuster,* RAND and University of California, Los Angeles
Shawn Semeslberger, Foster Club, Traverse City, MI
Alan Shapiro, Montefiore Medical Group, South Bronx Children and Family Health Center
Josh Sharfstein, Baltimore City Health Department
Matthew Stagner,* Chapin Hall Center for Children, The University of Chicago
Donald Stechschulte Jr., Bucknell University
Christina Varmvas, Alliance for Children and Families, United Neighborhood Centers of America
Leslie Walker,* Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle
Charles Wibbelsman, Kaiser Permanente
Nicole Yohalem, Forum for Youth Investment, Cady-Lee House