AYAH National Resource Center Unveils Change Packages to Improve Preventative Visits
The Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center (AYAH-NRC) is pleased to announce Transforming Health Care for Adolescents and Young Adults. This interactive module, housed on AMCHP's adolescent health website, is designed to guide and enable improvement teams to implement change in their settings. It features three "change packages" on increasing the receipt of quality preventive visits for adolescents and young adults (AYAs), built around the following strategies:

Increase access and utilization of AYA preventive services

Improve quality of AYA preventive services (clinic-level)

Improve state- and systems-level policies and practice for AYA preventive services

For more information, view the module, visit the AYAH-NRC website, or contact Iliana White at iwhite@amchp.org. Before using the module, please complete the three-question survey.

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