HIV/AIDS, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are very present within the Baltimore City community and it affects the general population as a whole. These numbers and figures represent the known cases of these infections however, how many more individuals are affected and still unaware? The steps necessary to uncover some of the reasons why Baltimore City remains disproportionately affected are still underway. Deep rooted socioeconomic disparities play a huge role in why Baltimore City has these poor health statistics. High poverty and crime rates contribute to the declining wellbeing of the general population. When community members' deal with difficult social and environmental factors, their health and physical well being are often neglected and this neglect continues into adulthood and for most of the individual's life.
[...] This training is for the purpose of taking the skills that most staff members already possess and helping them to streamline it in a way that is most meaningful when working with youth clients. Training will also be an ongoing part of YFS and staff should be required to participate in training at least twice a year. The frequent training is primarily due to the ever-changing nature of the work. As the dynamics of Baltimore City's youth changes, so do the dynamics of how they can be best reached and affected. [...]
[...] The Youth Friendly Services program is one that is created to constantly change in order to keep up with the demands placed by the population that it serves. Much of its structure and set-up has to depend on the culture and dynamics of each individual site. The key to the success of this program is that it is allowed to mold naturally. Too much structure from its onset would act as a limiting factor and not allow the program to stay true to its original goal of creating social change within the young generation through a public health approach. [...]
[...] Because YFS needs the expertise of trained professionals, such as nurses and counselors, the program will actively seek people in those fields so that they can be hired, retrain, and used to effect change in the lives of the youth in their community. Ideally, these people will come in the form of nurses and counselors who both have permanent positions elsewhere and want to be involved in YFS on a volunteer basis, or those who simply want to dedicate their full time work to the sustenance and maintenance of this project. [...]
[...] This pattern of health consciousness will repeat itself and will continue to be reinforced through the Youth Friendly Services in local clinics. YFS: A Quick Snap Shot An 18-year-old boy has escorted his girlfriend to the clinic for a routine but important check up. As they get ready to leave, the head nurse approaches them and suggests that they visit the mobile clinic to get some useful information and materials. As they enter the YFS facility, they notice the walls of the trailer are covered with everything from large cartoon artwork, to charts and diagrams about various health statistics. [...]
[...] The mobile clinics to be used for the Baltimore area YFS program will simply be mobile trailers that have been outfitted with the necessary equipment, tools, and supplies to provide the preventative services offered by the program, and will be placed in strategic locations around the city. For implementation purposes, these trailers should first be placed near clinics that have larger pools of youth cliental utilizing their regular clinical services, relative to other portions of the city. The city can begin the first phase of implementation by introducing five of these mobile clinics to areas that are in close proximity to the designated clinics, which will most likely be those nearest local middle schools and high schools. [...]
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