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      Incorporating youth-led community participatory research into school health center programs and policies.

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          Training adolescents as student researchers is a strategy that can improve the delivery of care at school-based health centers (SBHCs) and significantly shift school health policies impacting students. From 2003 to 2006, the University of California, San Francisco, in partnership with Youth In Focus, implemented a participatory student research project to enhance the existing evaluation of the Alameda County SBHC Coalition and its participating clinic members, and to help develop and implement school health policies. Providing opportunities and training that enabled youth to identify and research the health needs of their peers, as well as advocate for improvements in SBHCs based on their research findings, represents an exciting youth development strategy. This article describes the role the youth played, how their adult partners supported their work, and the impact that their efforts had on the SBHCs and school health programming and policies in the areas of condom accessibility and mental health services.

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          Journal
          Public Health Rep
          Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
          SAGE Publications
          0033-3549
          0033-3549
          August 29 2009
          : 123
          : 6
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0936, USA. Samira.Soleimanpour@ucsf.edu
          Article
          10.1177/003335490812300607
          2556716
          19711652
          3a5fc1b8-9a2e-442c-abcc-f9546c68ebf4
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