Center for Adolescent Health and the Law

Center for Adolescent Health & the Law

promoting the health of adolescents and young adults and their access to comprehensive health care

Sexual and Reproductive Health Care for Adolescents: Legal Rights and Policy Challenges

Sexual and Reproductive Health Care for Adolescents: Legal Rights and Policy Challenges. English A. Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews. 2007;18:571-581.

Filed Under: Consent & Confidentiality, Financial Access & Health Insurance, Journal Articles, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, Confidentiality, Consent and Confidentiality, Financial Access, Medicaid, Minor Consent, sexual and reproductive health care, Title X

Helping Teens Stay Healthy and Safe: Health Care, Birth Control and Confidential Services (2007)

The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law and Healthy Teen Network have produced a set of resources entitled Helping Teens Stay Healthy and Safe: Health Care, Birth Control and Confidential Services.

The Helping Teens Stay Healthy and Safe series is the result of a year long investigation of how teen access to confidential services is affected when a state’s laws are unclear or not well understood. Offering confidential services is often necessary for teens to access essential preventive care. Even so, not all states explicitly authorize minors to consent for contraceptive services and even in those that do confusion about how and when teens may access confidential services often prevails – among administrators, clinical care providers, clinic support staff, teens, and parents.

This comprehensive series of brochures offers guidance to health care providers, teens, and parents of teens about ways they can deliver, receive, and support adolescents’ access to confidential contraceptive services.

Healthy Teen Network is a national membership network founded on the belief that youth can make responsible decisions about their sexuality and reproductive health when they have complete, accurate and culturally relevant information, skills, resources and support. For more information, visit HealthyTeenNetwork.org.

Download Report PDFs: Intro | Full Report
Download Brochures: Guide for Teens | Guide for Parents | Guide for Providers

Filed Under: Consent & Confidentiality, Other Publications, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, Confidentiality, Consent and Confidentiality, Contraception, Medicaid, Minor Consent, Sexual & Reproductive Health Services, Title X

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 Center for Middle Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adults Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF Policy Center) has produced Health Care for Adolescents and Young Adults Leaving Foster Care: Policy Options for Improving Access.

The issue brief describes the young people who are aging out of foster care, their health status, and the barriers to securing health care they face when leaving foster care. It explains how health care access can be improved for this population, by describing how Medicaid and SCHIP currently reach adolescents and young adults, and how these two programs can be used to help former foster youth. The brief emphasizes the important opportunity presented by the Medicaid Expansion Option contained in the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999, and summarizes the policy options that can best improve access to health care for former foster youth.

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Filed Under: Consent & Confidentiality, Other Publications, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, Confidentiality, Consent and Confidentiality, Contraception, Medicaid, Minor Consent, Sexual & Reproductive Health Services, Title X

The Unique Health Care Needs of Adolescents

The Unique Health Care Needs of Adolescents. Brindis C, Morreale MC, English A. Future of Children. 2003;13:117-135.

Filed Under: Consent & Confidentiality, Financial Access & Health Insurance, Journal Articles, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, CHIP, Confidentiality, Consent and Confidentiality, Financial Access, Medicaid, Minor Consent, Title X

The Health of Adolescent Girls: Does the Law Support It?

The Health of Adolescent Girls: Does the Law Support It? English A. Current Women’s Health Reports. 2002;6:442-449.

Filed Under: Consent & Confidentiality, Financial Access & Health Insurance, Journal Articles, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, CHIP, Confidentiality, Consent and Confidentiality, Financial Access, Medicaid, Minor Consent, Sexual & Reproductive Health Services, Title X

Financing Adolescent Health Care: Legal and Policy Issues for the Coming Decade

Financing Adolescent Health Care: Legal and Policy Issues for the Coming Decade. English A. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2002;31(suppl):334-346

Filed Under: Financial Access & Health Insurance, Journal Articles, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, CHIP, Financial Access, health care reform, Medicaid, Title X

A Legal & Policy Framework for Adolescent Health Care: Past, Present, & Future

A Legal & Policy Framework for Adolescent Health Care: Past, Present, & Future. English A, Morreale M. Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy. 1 Symposium 2001:63-108.

Filed Under: Consent & Confidentiality, Financial Access & Health Insurance, Journal Articles, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, CHIP, Confidentiality, Consent and Confidentiality, Financial Access, health care reform, law, Medicaid, Minor Consent, policy, Title X

Reproductive Health Services for Adolescents: Critical Legal Issues

Reproductive Health Services for Adolescents: Critical Legal Issues. English A. Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America 27, March 2000, 195-211.

Filed Under: Consent & Confidentiality, Financial Access & Health Insurance, Journal Articles, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, Confidentiality, Consent and Confidentiality, Financial Access, law, Medicaid, Minor Consent, Sexual & Reproductive Health Services, Title X

Legal Issues in Reproductive Health Care for Adolescents

Legal Issues in Reproductive Health Care for Adolescents. English A, Simmons PS. Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews 10, June 1999, 181-194.

Filed Under: Consent & Confidentiality, Financial Access & Health Insurance, Journal Articles, Publications Tagged With: Adolescents, Confidentiality, Consent and Confidentiality, Financial Access, Medicaid, Minor Consent, Sexual & Reproductive Health Services, Title X

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State Minor Consent Laws: A Summary, 3rd Edition

The highly acclaimed 3rd edition of State Minor Consent Laws: A Summary is available!

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Resources for the Affordable Care Act

The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law and the National Adolescent and Young Adult Health Information Center (NAHIC) have published a series of issue briefs explaining the implications of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for adolescents and young adults.

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