Center for Adolescent Health & the Law

Promoting the health of adolescents and their access to comprehensive health care.

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Print this page The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law is a unique national organization that works exclusively to promote the health of adolescents and their access to comprehensive health care. The Center addresses a broad range of complex legal and policy issues that affect access to health care for the most vulnerable youth in the United States. The Center provides information and analysis, publications, consultation, and training to health professionals, policy makers, researchers and advocates who are working to protect the health of our adolescents.
   
   
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  Internship Opportunities Available for Summer 2008
  The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law is accepting internship applications for Summer 2008. Click here for more details.
   

 

Publications
  Helping Teens Stay Healthy and Safe: Health Care, Birth Control and Confidential Services
  The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law partnered with Healthy Teen Network to create a series of brochures for teens, parents of teens and providers regarding their right to delivery, receive and support adolescent access to confidential contraceptive services. For a description of the brochures, as well as a full report, click here.
   
 

Health Insurance for Older Adolescents and Young Adults: Policy Options to Expand Coverage (2006)

  The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law has released "Health Insurance for Older Adolescents and Young Adults: Policy Options to Expand Coverage." For a description of this issue brief, click here.
   
  Health Care for Adolescents and Young Adults Leaving Foster Care: Policy Options for Improving Access (2006)
  The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law, in collaboration with the Public Policy Analysis and Education Center for Middle Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Health at the University of California, San Francisco, has released "Health Care for Adolescents and Young Adults Leaving Foster Care: Policy Options for Improving Access." For a description of this issue brief, click here.
   
  Policy Compendium on Confidential Health Services for Adolescents (Second Edition) (2005)
  The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law, in collaboration with the American Medical Association (AMA), the AMA National Coalition on Adolescent Health, and the AMA Educational Forum on Adolescent Health, has released "Policy Compendium on Confidential Health Services for Adolescents" (Second Edition). For a description of this compendium, click here.
   
   
   

             


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Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516-4407

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