CENTER FOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION

中心申请说明(由调查人员提供)：青少年健康中心在其15年的历史中一直致力于与青年、他们的家人和巴尔的摩青年工作者合作，为年轻人准备健康的成人生活方式做好准备。我们的具体目标是与社区合作伙伴合作：1.评估需求，衡量优势，减少巴尔的摩青年及其家庭的健康障碍。2.制定、试点测试和评估巴尔的摩现有青年服务计划中青年发展和健康促进战略的有效性。3.建立青少年健康中心，将其作为社区、新闻媒体和更广泛受众的主要信息来源，以提高从事青年工作的人的知识和技能，并推动政策改革，以改善青年的健康。4.探索巴尔的摩青年与与他们一起工作的成年人之间有效沟通的障碍，并制定干预措施，以加强个人和公共领域的有效沟通。5.开展培训和技术援助，以建设巴尔的摩青年及其家人、从事青年工作的个人和机构、市和州卫生局以及约翰霍普金斯大学各部门和学校的学生和研究生的能力。我们的核心研究项目，如随附的申请中所述，是对一项心理健康干预措施的评估，该干预措施已被整合到一个服务于校外青年的社区就业和培训计划中。该项目是在过去四年中由项目参与者、项目工作人员、我们CAB的代表、巴尔的摩城市机构和学术合作伙伴组成的顾问小组合作开发和测试的。

DESCRIPTION FOR CENTER APPLICATION (provided by the investigator): The Center for Adolescent Health over its 15 years has been dedicated to working in partnership with youth, their families and people who work with youth in Baltimore to prepare young people for healthy adult lifestyles. Our specific aims are to work with community partners to: 1. Assess needs, measure strengths and reduce barriers to health among Baltimore youth and their families. 2. Develop, pilot test and evaluate the effectiveness of youth development and health promotion strategies in existing youth serving programs in Baltimore. 3. Establish the Center for Adolescent Health as a premier information resource for the community, news media and wider audiences in order to enhance the knowledge and skills of people who work with young people and advance policy changes that will improve the health of youth. 4. Explore barriers to effective communication between Baltimore youth and the adults who work with them and develop interventions to enhance effective communication in both the personal and public arenas. 5. To develop training and technical assistance to build capacity among Baltimore youth and their families, people and agencies that work with young people, the City and State health departments, and students and post-graduates across departments and schools at Johns Hopkins. Our core research project, described in the accompanying application, is the evaluation of a mental health intervention that has been integrated into a neighborhood employment and training program serving out-of-school youth. This project was developed and tested collaboratively over the past four years by and advisory group of program participants, program staff, representatives from our CAB, Baltimore city agencies, and academic partners.