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About the Program

The Adolescent Health Program seeks to promote positive youth development and prevent or reduce negative health outcomes, with a focus on:

• Avoiding early initiation of sexual activity and teen pregnancy
• Promoting healthy relationships
• Eliminating unequal and unhealthy relationships
• Promoting overall adolescent health and wellbeing
• Encouraging family, school and community involvement in the lives of youth

The Adolescent Health Program serves as a resource to Alaskan communities and aims to offer the public the best possible services available to them. Here is some of what the program does:

• Collaborates with other State agencies
• Supports the efforts of local community service agencies
• Promotes partnerships between local community health and social service agencies
• Provides technical assistance and trainings on healthy relationships, teen pregnancy prevention, youth development, and more
• Publishes periodic fact sheets and reports on adolescent health
• Plans, manages, supports and evaluates programs in the community
• Involves youth in decisions and planning programs to address their needs
• Provides access to adolescent health resources and materials

Resources

• National and Statewide Resources for Youth Health and Development, Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Healthy/Unhealthy relationships and other topics.

Materials

• We produce a variety of written materials about Adolescent Health issues, for distribution to the public — click here to see what we currently have in stock.

For more information about the State of Alaska Adolescent Health Program or if you have questions or comments, please contact:

Sophie Wenzel, MPH
Adolescent Health Program Manager
Alaska Division of Public Health
Women's, Children's and Family Health
4701 Business Park Blvd, Building J, Suite 20
Anchorage, Alaska 99503-7123
Phone: 907.269.3466
Fax: 907.269.3465

Send an e-mail message to the program manager