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Adolescent Health Education Initiative

Adolescent Health Education Initiative Children's Care Management Identity & Acceptance Program Health Services for Child Welfare Involved Children & Youth Partnership to Improve Community Health Outcomes School Based Mental Health Services School Response Teams Supportive Housing

The Foundling’s Adolescent Health Education Initiative gives adolescents in foster care, or whose families are in prevention programs, a place where they can become educated on health topics most relevant to them – including preventing adolescent pregnancy and improving sexual health.

Primarily serving the Bronx, the Adolescent Health Education Initiative utilizes two evidence-based models targeting adolescent youth, ages 11-18, who are in foster care or whose families are receiving foster care prevention services. The program focuses on cultivating self-confidence, responsibility, and social skills—all of which are vitally important to reducing adolescent pregnancy and improving sexual health outcomes among young people in our community.

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Success Stories

Vernon Learns to Cook and Eat Healthy

The Foundling employs a full-time Nutrition team to ensure that the residents in our homes for people with developmental disabilities stay healthy - from nutritious meal planning to regular exercise courses.  Across all of our 104 supportive residences, staff and residents are encouraged to try new recipes and bolster their cooking skills. With the help of our dedicated staff, Vernon, who lives in one of our residences in Brooklyn, learned to cook his own healthy meal of oatmeal blueberry pancakes! Not only is he learning skills for independence, but is achieving the tools and mindset to stay healthy for years to come.

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Our Continued

Impact

10.2M
adults have co-occurring mental health and addiction disorders
20%
of youth between the ages of 13-18 live with a mental health condition
9
program sites providing services throughout the New York metropolitan area
50%
of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14
90%
of those who die by suicide have an underlying mental illness
2,000+
hours of evidence-based therapy provided every year at our Home of Integrated Behavioral Health in Harlem
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The Foundling's Implementation Support Center works with organizations across the world to help them identify and implement evidence based programs

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To bring evidence-based practices to your agency, call 917-485-7297 or email us at ISC@nyfoundling.org

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