Friday, April 19, 2024
4/19/2024
The National Center for Youth Law, the facilitator of the Los Angeles Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth (LA RHEP) collaborative, proposes to launch the California Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth (CA RHEP), a state-wide and cross-sector Innovation Network with the shared goal of improving optimal health for youth in foster care by significantly reducing their disproportionately high rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The CA RHEP Innovation Network, along with a Youth Advisory Board and community stakeholders, will implement a three-year Innovation & Impact Strategy that draws from collective impact, intentional innovation, and systems thinking practices to explore, develop, test, refine, evaluate, and disseminate effective innovations over three years that: 1) Ensure youth in California foster care ages 13-18 receive age-appropriate, medically accurate, and trauma-informed sexual health education by adapting a proven curriculum for online, synchronous delivery without losing the human elements that make in-person classes effective; 2) Strengthen the connections and hand off practices between systems by developing youth-centered linkages between sexual health education, providers of healthcare, and child welfare. A core component of this continuum development will be developing and testing a trauma-informed patient navigation program for youth in foster care in two large clinical systems that can bridge gaps, deconstruct barriers, and ensure youth get the most out of their health care experiences; and 3) Empower foster caregivers so that they can be part of the conversation by developing interventions in partnership with caregivers that effectively address their priority content needs but also use innovative user-responsive approaches to deliver that content.
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