Enhancing Healthy Adolescent Development

Summary

- Enhancing adolescent development means

- Preventing adverse childhood experiences

- Ensuring adequate growth and development

- Enhancing protective factors in the person, home, school and community

- Strategies include

- Involving community groups, rec centers, businesses in providing opportunities for youth recreation and leadership

- Working with schools to adjust curriculum to teach skills necessary for success including resiliency skills, health literacy and mental health promotion

- Ensuring families have access to the resources they need to create a safe and nurturing environment

- Involving youth in identifying problems, challenges, gaps in resources and incentives for participation

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