Confidentiality Best Practices

Confidentiality Best Practices

This document provides an overview of minor consent and confidentiality policy, law, and best practice considerations. Includes: the legal requirements for minor consent, strategies for communicating with parents and adolescents regarding confidentiality laws, and barriers, challenges, and strategies to implementing confidentiality laws.

Sexual and Reproductive Health Care: A Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine

Sexual and Reproductive Health Care: A Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine

This document states the positions of the Society for Adolescent Health Medicine and proposes recommendations for youth-serving professionals to improve the health of adolescent and young adult populations.

Male Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Care

Male Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Care

This report discusses specific issues related to male adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health care in the context of primary care, including pubertal and sexual development, sexual behavior, consequences of sexual behavior, and methods of preventing sexually transmitted infections (including HIV) and pregnancy.

Preventative Male Sexual and Reproductive Health Care: Recommendations for Clinical Practice

Preventative Male Sexual and Reproductive Health Care: Recommendations for Clinical Practice

This document assists with improving the delivery of family planning and sexual and reproductive health services for reproductive-aged males in Title X supported health and social service settings or other clinical settings that serve this population.

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Adolescent and Young Adult Health Questionnaire

Adolescent and Young Adult Health Questionnaire

This document is a questionnaire template that can be used to provide adolescents and young adults an opportunity to self-report about their health and risks.

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Parents & Family Matter: Strategies for Developing Family-Centered Adolescent Care Within Primary Care Practices

Parents & Family Matter: Strategies for Developing Family-Centered Adolescent Care Within Primary Care Practices

This article discusses strategies for developing family-centered adolescent care within primary care practices, given primary care providers are uniquely positioned to provide needed support and education to parents of teens.

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Minnesota Department of Health: Adolescent & Young Adult (AYA) Patient Satisfaction Surveys

Minnesota Department of Health: Adolescent & Young Adult (AYA) Patient Satisfaction Surveys

This site provides examples of patient-satisfaction surveys that could be offered to youth in order to gather feedback on the youth-friendliness of the clinic environment and services provided.

University of Michigan: Youth-Led Health Center Assessment Tool

University of Michigan: Youth-Led Health Center Assessment Tool

An assessment tool that could be used to evaluate the youth-friendliness of health centers by engaging young people in evaluation.

CDC Infobrief for Parents

CDC Infobrief for Parents

Provide this document to parents who need more information on teen visits and one-on-one time with a healthcare provider.

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Essential Sexual Health Questions to Ask Adults & Adolescents

Essential Sexual Health Questions to Ask Adults & Adolescents

An overview of the sexual health questions to ask adults and adolescents, at least annually.