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No. 0990 0379
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Date 08/31/2023
Request
for Approval to Collect Data in Support of Office of Population
Affairs’ Development of a National Strategic Plan for
Adolescent Health
Questions
for Focus Groups
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Q1. Vision for the field
of adolescent health: What should be the priorities in the field
of adolescent health in the next 3 – 5 years?
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Questions
Around Infrastructure, Including Gaps and Overlaps
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If you could
design a system to support adolescent health, what would it look
like? What components would it have? What policies and/or
programs would support that system?
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If you
had unlimited resources, what policies or programs would you
create/expand/champion to support adolescents?
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If
you had unlimited resources, what kind of public health
infrastructure would you build to support adolescents? Who would
be your partners?
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How
can we change the negative perception of adolescents?
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How
can siloes (e.g., narrowly defined or focused funding, programs
and services, organizations) be reduced or eliminated in the
field of adolescent health?
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Where
are the challenges for future adolescent health research and
innovation?
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Where
are the biggest areas of overlap in adolescent health programs
and services? What can be done to reduce duplication and use
resources more efficiently
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Questions
Around Collaboration and Coordination
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Coordination
is defined as individual entities working independently but
aligned to a specific goal. What would better coordination in the
field of adolescent health look like? How could federal agencies
play a role in improving coordination?
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Collaboration
is co-creating a shared output or outcome that benefits from the
complementary strengths of individual entities. What are some
opportunities for collaboration?
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What
are some examples of programs, efforts or initiatives that have
implemented a multi-sectoral collaboration approach to adolescent
health and wellbeing? Have these efforts been successful? If
so, why?
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Which
domains of adolescent health should be prioritized for
collaboration?
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How
can federal, state, or local resources be mobilized to finance
and support the health and wellbeing of adolescents?
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Please
suggest 1-2 innovative financing models that can help bridge
financing needs for adolescent-focused services.
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Questions around
priorities (show graphic and chart of different frameworks)
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Are
you familiar with these frameworks on adolescent health? If so,
which resonates with you, and why?
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Which
domains of adolescent health should be prioritized in the
national strategic plan?
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How
would you decide which areas to prioritize?
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What
else would you add as a priority area?
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Q2. Current state of
adolescence: What factors are most important to help adolescents
thrive and what factors prevent adolescents from thriving?
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Questions
for Adult Participants/Interviewees
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How can
youth-serving professionals better address the various factors
and barriers impacting adolescents’ health?
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From
your perspective, what models/methods/approaches work best to
equitably incorporate youth voices? Why?
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How
can adults (e.g., parents, grandparents, caregivers, guardians,
healthcare providers, community leaders, teachers, etc.) provide
better support to adolescent well-being? What are some specific
examples of positive support?
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What
are the greatest threats to adolescent well-being and health?
How do these threats impact specific groups of adolescents (e.g.,
adolescents with disabilities, people of color, justice-involved
youth, youth in foster care, rural youth, LGBTQ youth,
disconnected youth (not in school or at work), and expectant and
parenting youth)?
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In
the body of research on adolescent health, what is left out? How
can we begin to address these research gaps?
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Questions
for youth participants (15-19 year olds and 20+ year olds)
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What
do you think is the most important health issue or need for
people your age?
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What
do people your age need to be healthy? Are there any services or
supports or types of information they need that they don’t
have?
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What
do people your age worry about when they think about their
future? What is hard about the lives of young people?
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In
what ways are people your age doing well? What is working well
in your lives?
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What
makes it hard for you and other people your age to get health
services? How can we make it easier for young people to get the
health care they want and need?
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What
do adults get wrong about the lives of young people your age?
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If
you have a question or problem, who do you turn to for help? Why
do you turn to that person or those people?
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How
can adults do a better job of building trust with young people
your age?
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If
you could build a program or service to help young people live
their best lives, what would it look like? How would you get
them to participate?
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Q3. Health Equity: Where
are the most critical gaps in addressing health equity, quality of
care and
access and where are
the opportunities to build towards equity?
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Questions
for Adult Participants/Interviewees
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What programs
are successfully addressing health equity for adolescents?
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How
can we mitigate the impact of structural bias and racism in
adolescent health?
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How
can we mitigate the impact of individual bias and racism in
adolescent health?
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What
policies or approaches would best promote equity in adolescent
health? Why?
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What
are some examples of programs, policies, or efforts that have
made a difference in promoting equity? Are they successful? If
so, why?
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What
are the gaps in research related to health equity? How do you
think we should address these gaps?
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What
are some specific opportunities to integrate and promote equity
in adolescent health and wellbeing on the federal, state, and
local levels?
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