PAST MEETINGS

Teen/Young Adult Health Providers Gathering
4th Annual Teen/Young Adult Health Providers Gathering
Generously sponsored by California Pacific Medical Center
(February 23, 2007 at the SF Community Clinic Consortium Penthouse Conference Room)

Save the Date! You're invited to the 4th Annual Teen/Young Adult Health Providers Gathering on Friday, February 23rd from 8:30-10:30am. It will be held at the SF Community Clinic Consortium building's Penthouse Conference Room at 1550 Bryant Street, San Francisco.

What we will be doing at the gathering:

• Networking and catching up (with breakfast)
  
• Debuting the Behavioral Health Adolescent Provider Toolkit. Overview of the Toolkit by Erica Monasterio, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Nursing at UCSF
  

Save the Date flyer (PDF) Please send the Save the Date flyer to your colleagues.

Registration Form Register online by 2/14/07.

Note: There is a short flight of stairs between the elevator and the Penthouse Conference Room.

3rd Annual Teen/Young Adult Health Providers Gathering
(December 9, 2005, at the San Francisco Health Plan)

Save the Date! You're invited to the Teen/Young Adults Health Providers Gathering on Friday, December 9th from 8:30-10:30am. It will be held at the SF Health Plan's new office at 201 Third St., 7th Floor.

• What will we be doing?
  
• Networking and catching up (with breakfast)
  
• HEADSSS up from Margaret Brodkin (DCYF) and Barbara Garcia (DPH)
  
• Establishing priorities for the new DCYF/DPH Adolescent Health Coordinator
  

Meeting Invitation (PDF)

Click here for directions to the San Francisco Health Plan

Transitional Youth Roundtable: Second Meeting
(May 25, 2005, at the Department of Public Health)

You're invited to the Transitional Youth Roundtable on Wednesday, May 25th from 11:00AM - 12:30PM.

When: Wednesday, May 25th, 11:00AM - 12:30PM
Where: Department of Public Health, 1380 Howard Street, 5th Floor Conference Room

The tentative agenda includes:
Update on Community Behavioral Health Transitional Youth Programs
Presentation of AHWG's "Young Adults and the Health Insurance Crisis" report
Homeless and Runaway Youth Priorities report
Update on City-wide Transitional Youth Task Force

Please RSVP by May 23rd to Iman Nazeeri-Simmons via email Iman.Nazeeri-Simmons@sfdph.org or at (415) 437-4656. If you have any questions, please contact Iman or Elise Resch at (415) 576-1170 x304.

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Adolescent Mental Health in San Francisco: Second Meeting
(November 19, 2002, at the San Francisco LGBT Center)

Sai-Ling Chan-Sew (Director, SFDPH Mental Health-Children, Youth and Families) reviewed entitlement and specific programs for youth in need of assessment, consultation and treatment who are identified by parents and school, foster care, juvenile justice, youth service and public and private healthcare providers in San Francisco. The meeting featured a panel of seven youth, 14-18 years, who have been involved in at least two "systems": mental health, special ed, juvenile justice, foster care. This series was developed as a response to front-line health providers’ concern over young people’s access to behavioral health services in our community.

Meeting Summary (PDF)
Sail Ling Chan-Sew Slide Presentation (PDF)
Perspectives of Mental Health: Youth Conducted Survey of SF Youth. July 2002. From AHWG.
Rand Health Research Highlights. Mental Health Care For Youth: Who Gets It? How Much Does It Cost? Who Pays? Where Does the Money Go? (HTML) 3 pages. RAND.
www.rand.org/health.
Childhood Trends Research Brief. Promoting Positive Mental and Emotional health in Teens: Some Lessons from Research. (PDF) 8 pages. Sept. 2002. Jonathan F. Zaff, PhD, Julia Calkins, Lisa J. Bridges, PhD, Nancy Geyelin Margie.
Adolescent Depression and Mental Health Services. (PDF) 4 pages. Compilation, see documentation.
Meeting Invitation (PDF)

Update on Youth and HIV and STDs in San Francisco
(presented in conjunction with the SFDPH Office of Adolescent Health, October 22, 2002 at the SFDPH AIDS Office)

Jacque Siller, SFDPH STD Prevention and Control, presented an overview of STD Trends in San Francisco. Steven Tierney, SFDPH HIV/AIDS Prevention, gave a Youth and HIV Update. The presentations were followed by an activity led by Peer Health Educators from Huckleberry’s Cole Street Clinic.

Meeting Minutes (PDF)
HIV and Youth Update: Steven Tierney, Ed.D. Director, HIV Prevention (PDF)
STDs Amoung Youth and Young Adults in San Francisco: Jacqueline Siller, Community-based STD Services Manager San Francisco Department of Public Health, STD Prevention & Control Services (PDF)
Meeting Invitation (PDF)

Transgender Youth and Provider Experience
(July 25, 2002 at the Women's Building)

Panelists included providers and youth from the Dimensions Clinic, and LGBTQ youth clinic, and a therapist from LYRIC. The new San Francisco Office of Adolescent Health Coordinator was also welcomed during this meeting.

Meeting Invitation (PDF)

Reducing the Stigma: Adolescent Mental Health in San Francisco

April 23, 2002 at the Main Library, San Francisco Public Library

The first in a series of meetings developed as a response to front-line health providers’ concern over young people’s access to behavioral health services in our community. Miriam Martinez, a psychiatrist from San Francisco General Hospital’s Child and Adolescent Health Services, David Knopf, a social worker from the UCSF Division of Adolescent Medicine, and Estelle Eskenazi, an art therapist from Balboa High School Teen Clinic led a discussion on barriers to mental health services for adolescents. Three young people shared their diverse experiences with mental health services and treatment.

Meeting Invitation (MS Word)

Transitional Youth
(October 11, 2001 at the SF Department of Public Health, 101 Grove)

Rebecca Ledwith, an attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid, Leonard Gonzales, director of YO!SF, Ruth Nunez, a caseworker at Larkin Street Youth Center, and Tanene Allison discussed the experiences of youth in transition.

Meeting Invitation (MS Word)

School-Based Health Programs
June 15, 2001 at the Shinnyo-en Foundation

Trish Bascom, Director of San Francisco Unified School District School Health Programs, provided an overview of San Francisco’s Wellness Centers; Michael Baxter, then director of the Balboa Teen Clinic, explained San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Minor Consent Policy, and two young people from Youth Making a Change (YMAC) presented confidentiality concerns about treatment at the Wellness Centers.

Meeting Invitation (PDF)