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ADOLESCENT HEALTH ADVISORY BOARD​

​The Adolescent Health Advisory Board is a team of local medical providers, health and social service professionals and community members who have a vested interest in the health of adolescents and teens in Hillsborough County. The committee reviews data on adolescent health and well-being, including teen pregnancy, birth and STI rates, and youth risk screening results, to identify needs and address barriers to care. The committee partners with youth-serving providers and organizations to improve adolescent access to health services and community resources.

 

The Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County serves as the backbone organization for the Adolescent Health Advisory Board through facilitating quarterly meetings and providing leadership for the Adolescent Health Initiative and Teen Connect Tampa Bay. The program features an online resource directory (www.TeenConnectTampaBay.org) and peer navigation services to provide personalized support with referrals and linkages to youth-friendly resources in Hillsborough County. 

 

We invite youth-serving professionals, providers, parents, and advocates to join our network!

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MEETINGS

​Quarterly meetings occur on the last Thursday of the month from 3:00-4:30pm Meetings are held at the Healthy Start Coalition Office, with a virtual option available via Teams.

 

Upcoming 2026

Meeting Dates:

  • Thursday, January 29

  • Thursday, April 30

  • Thursday, July 30

  • Thursday, October 29

TRAININGS

Person-Centered Contraceptive
Care Training Series

Experts from the Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) lead an engaging training series on person-centered contraceptive care. This training series was offered to USF Health providers, Ybor Youth Clinic staff, and youth-serving community partners in April and May 2025 through a partnership with the Tampa/Hillsborough Reproductive Well-Being Learning Collaborative and Power to Decide.

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Core Concepts in Person-Centered Contraceptive Care

  • The first training covers core concepts including conceptual grounding in Person-Centeredness, Reproductive Autonomy, Reproductive and Sexual Health Equity, and Reproductive Justice.

    • [LINK TO TRAINING OR EMBED VIDEO]

    • Training materials:

      • Exploring Personal Values Worksheet [link to PDF attached separately]

      • Case-Based Discussion 1: Example Cases [link to PDF attached separately]

 

Patient-Provider Communication

  • The subsequent virtual training provides a deeper dive into patient-provider communication for prescribers, nursing staff, and health educators.

    • [LINK TO TRAINING OR EMBED VIDEO]

    • Training materials:

      • Case-Based Discussions: Example Cases [link to PDF attached separately]

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Emergency Contraception

 

This expert talk was delivered to the Hillsborough Healthy Teen Network and Teen Parent Collaborative in March 2024.

Presented by Dr. Cameron Nereim

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Division of Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine

University of South Florida (USF) Health Morsani College of Medicine

Adolescent medicine physician at the USF Health Ybor Youth Clinic

 

[LINK TO PRESENTATION OR EMBED VIDEO]

  • Presentation Slides [Link to slides attached]

Self-Identified Need for Contraception
Measure Implementation

  • The final virtual training builds upon the initial sessions with the addition of how to apply a self-identified need for contraception (SINC) measure in a youth clinic setting.

    • [LINK TO TRAINING OR EMBED VIDEO]

    • Training materials:

      • SINC Implementation – Example Clinic Workflow Process Map [Link to attached doc]

      • Process Mapping Guidelines [Link to attached doc]

 

Check out more information on UCSF’s approach to contraceptive counseling and the SINC measure.

 

Supplemental Materials:

MEET THE TRAINERS

Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS, is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), with additional appointments in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She founded and directs the Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program, which aims to advance reproductive autonomy and well-being by conducting research and designing programs that center people’s experiences and preferences for sexual and reproductive health and health care, guided by an attention to the intersecting oppressions and structural injustices that impact people’s lives and health. Her research seeks to understand people’s preferences about reproductive health care, as well as developing and evaluating interventions to support patients to make informed, value-concordant decisions about their reproductive health. This includes having developed a contraceptive decision support tool designed to facilitate shared decision making between patients and providers about contraceptive options by informing patients about the characteristics of different methods and supporting them to evaluate the relationship of these characteristics to their personal preferences. Her work was honored with the Society of Family Planning’s Beacon of Science Award in 2022. She also provides primary care and reproductive health care at the Family Health Center at San Francisco General Hospital and Planned Parenthood.

Rachel Logan, PhD, MPH, CPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (FCM) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in FCM, working with the Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program. Prior to joining FCM, she completed her doctorate in Community and Family Health from the University of South Florida. Her research aims to improve the patient-provider dynamic during sexual and reproductive health care and to design community-engaged interventions to reduce inequities in sexual and reproductive healthcare and health outcomes. Leveraging critical socio-structural and theoretical frameworks, rooted in human rights and Black feminism, she uplifts the knowledge and expertise of Black communities and centers their perspectives in driving change in healthcare. Dr. Logan remains a resident of Florida and also serves as a member of the Core Team for Black in Repro, a workgroup of Floridians for Reproductive Freedom, and is a member of the Hillsborough County Reproductive Well-Being Learning Collaborative.

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