Friday, April 26, 2024
4/26/2024
Comprehensive Healthcare for Adolescents Initiative (CHAI) will coordinate and support a multidisciplinary network of partners to develop, refine, and test innovative interventions targeting youth access to and experience with sexual healthcare. Our goal focuses on convening the network with different perspectives, strengths and experiences, to develop innovations that enhance youth access and experiences in sexual healthcare. Network expansion will allow us to iterate, test, sustain and expand the interventions prototyped during the design phase. CHAI will design strategies and systems thinking to inform its strategy for developing innovative programs targeting healthcare access and experiences. CHAI project will focus on leverage points and loops influencing adolescent utilization and experience in healthcare across primary care, sexual and reproductive health, and mental health services in: 1) outpatient clinics, 2) school based health clinics and 3) hospital settings. Innovative design processes and systems thinking will allow the network team to utilize an innovation strategy that iterates and creates interventions based on various aspects related to healthcare access and experiences. CHAI’s innovation strategy will focus on four steps – identify, design, learn and scale –that allow for adequate divergence and convergence of ideas. Diverse stakeholders will be integrally involved to ensure relevant and feasible interventions. Continuous quality improvement (CQI) will monitor processes and inform necessary changes to ensure project success. Implementation evaluation metrics will document the innovation strategy; rapid, feasibility and pilot testing will be used to establish preliminary evidence for interventions. Project success, barriers and outcomes will be disseminated with community, practitioner, and academic audiences.
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