Adolescent Champion Model
Our Model
If you are enrolled in the Adolescent Champion Model, login below to access the Adolescent Champion Resources using the password provided by your consultant. Please contact adolescenthealth@umich.edu if you have any questions.
Valleywise Health Pediatrics in Phoenix, AZ (Gold-Level Certified Adolescent Champions).
The Adolescent Champion Model is an 18-month process that includes:
AHI developed the Adolescent Champion Model to drive health centers to become adolescent-centered medical homes. The Champion Model is a multi-faceted intervention to address a health center’s environment, policies, and practices to ensure that all aspects of a visit to the health center are youth-centered.
The Adolescent Champion Model has received awards from the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, Society for Teachers of Family Medicine, Healthy Teen Network, and Michigan Medicine for its innovative approach to improving adolescent health care.
Impact
Adolescent Champion health centers demonstrate significant improvement in the following areas:
- Adolescent patient satisfaction
- Staff perception of adolescent-centered care within their clinic
- Provider comfort and confidence in caring for adolescents
- Provider and staff knowledge of and attitudes toward confidentiality and minor consent laws
Adolescent Champion health centers demonstrate significant improvement in the following areas:
80% of Adolescent Champion sites reported improvements in at least 3 of the following:
- Total number of adolescent visits
- Number of preventive care visits
- Number of behavioral/mental health visits
- Number of behavioral referrals
*All data based on improvements made between baseline and project-end
Impact of the Adolescent Champion Model
Review our publications related to the Adolescent Champion Model to learn more!
Who We’ve Worked With
What Partners Are Saying
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"The program helped me explain to parents why the patient confidentiality is so important. Now the parents have no problem with their teens talking to the doctor directly.”
Certified Medical Assistant, UT Physicians Pediatric Teen Clinic -
“I love that the model really gives a voice to an often unheard age group. Through the Adolescent Champion Model, we were able to quickly identify and correct weaknesses in our adolescent care. Completing the process left myself, the staff, and most importantly our adolescent patients empowered.”
Pediatrician, Chiricahua Community Health Centers
We Can Help!
Become an Adolescent Champion! We facilitate the Adolescent Champion Model with health centers across the United States.
