Strategies

Provide immunity from arrest, charges, or prosecution for drug possession or paraphernalia when individuals experiencing or witnessing drug overdose summon emergency services

Provide educational and behavioral interventions that support patients’ ability to actively manage their condition(s) in everyday life

Organize workers to bargain collectively for improved wages, benefits, and working conditions

Delay school start times for middle and high schools to better align with adolescent sleep-wake cycles; often until 8:30 a.m. or later

Inform parents and caregivers about lead exposure pathways from contaminated dust, soil, water, and air as well as the irreversible health consequences of lead exposure

Increase the minimum and/or maximum age boundaries for youth to be processed in the juvenile justice system

Provide mental health care services (e.g., psychotherapy or counseling) via telephone or videoconference

Provide reproductive health care services such as counseling, contraception, and testing in middle and high school-based health centers

Provide pregnant or parenting teens with services based upon their needs (e.g., counseling, connections to health care or social services, academic support, etc.) in school or community settings

Address the needs of teenage parents via clinic-based programs that provide health care and family planning services as well as case management, counseling, and other supports