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Health Risks and Disparities Experienced by Hispanic
Youth
Strategies to Address Health and Educational Disparities
The following strategies have been proposed by CDC’s Division of
Adolescent and School Health for consideration by state and local education
and health agencies to address health and educational disparities among
students.
Focus Programmatic Efforts
- Analyze data to identify which groups of youth are at high risk for
targeted problems or risk behaviors.
- Target efforts and resources to support policy and programmatic
efforts that address the needs of youth in high risk groups.
- Support the design and implementation of evidence-based, culturally-
and linguistically-appropriate interventions and programs that focus on
youth at high risk.
Raise Awareness
- Learn more about the causes of disparities and about evidence-based
strategies for effectively addressing specific issues among specific
groups of youth at high risk.
- Educate policy makers, the public, and other agencies and
organizations about health and educational disparities, their causes,
and evidence-based strategies for effectively addressing specific issues
among specific groups of youth at high risk.
Build Partnerships
- Strengthen and sustain partnerships with agencies and organizations
serving youth at high risk.
- Participate in broad coalitions that work to address the root causes
of health and educational disparities (e.g. poverty, access to health
care, discrimination).
- Actively involve youth at high risk in advisory boards or youth
councils that plan programs to address health and educational
disparities.
Document Impact
- Monitor health outcomes and behaviors among youth at high risk and,
if possible, policies and programs that address these outcomes and
behaviors among these youth.
- Evaluate activities and programs that focus on youth at high risk,
and use findings to improve programs.
- Document and share broadly the successes, challenges, and lessons
learned in reaching youth at high risk.
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