• Before the vaccine, 11,000 were hospitalized and 150 people died from chickenpox

• After its introduction, we avoided those hospitalizations and deaths

• Vaccines show evidence for good

When more people are vaccinated, they are contributing to herd immunity, so a disease cannot spread as easily.

Vaccines can prevent illness severity and protect folks from spread, herd immunity as a concept of community protection

Flu Vaccine

HPV Vaccine

Tdap Vaccine

Meningococcal Vaccine

• Sept 2023: VPDC awarded for strengthening vaccine confidence + uptake among adolescent and their families through community partnerships

Goal:

• Increase vaccination uptake and address inequities in COVID-19 and routine vaccination coverage among adolescents and their families

Activities to Date:

• Provide trusted community leaders w/accurate information and messaging to improve vaccine confidence

  • Youth leaders

  • School staff

  • Pediatricians and other healthcare professionals

  • Community health workers

• Collab with Youth Advisory Council on 3/1/24 with 6 youth advisors

  • Gained insight about how youth + their parents make health/vaccine-related decisions to inform project priorities/strats

  • (E.G. found greater reliance on technology like Instagram to get info + important for media to be colorful, cute, and accessible in diff languages)

Increase vaccine uptake and address C19 inequities among teens and their families

Project focuses on trust community leaders to improve vaccine confidence, accurate and informative messaging

Collaboration with YAC, 3/1/24, hosted with a listening session with 6 youth advisors, gain insight on how youth and parents make vaccine related decisions

Health Education Materials developed from project

Social Media Toolkit

Fact Sheet

Peer to Peer Campign

• Boost posts to reach adolescents across LA County to increase audience reach/engagement

• Instagram Accounts: @Youth4PublicHealth & @LAPublicHealth

9/19/24

Office Hours - 4:00pm-5:00pm on 10/3/24

Save the Date: Part 2

10/26/24

Office Hours - TBD

Goal: build violence-free LA County where everyone can thrive

• important

• something everyone has

• on a continuum

• part of being human

• something we need to look after

• complex

It is not:

• weakness

• shameful

• all in the mind

• always negative

• something to think about only when it feels broken

• feeling good all the time

• something to snap out of

Other comments:

• easily irritable/trouble sleeping

• If your body feels a little more sluggish than normal when doing every-day things 

• Not enjoying normal activities you would usually enjoy

• Eating more junk food and snacking without caring too much about health

1. Hey we haven't talked in a while. How are you?

2. Are you ok, you done seem like yourself lately

3. Hey you seem frustrated today. I'm here for you .

4. Seems like somethings up. do you wanna talk about what's going on?

5. I'm worried about you and would like to know whats up so I can help.

Listen without judgement

Ask how can I help

let them know you care

assume the intention you can understand and not fix

validate their feelings

be patient

keep in touch even if you get no response

Dont:

interrupt or speak over

tell them how they should feel

jump in with solutions

pressure them to speak

be scared to speak about feelings

1. Hey, we haven't talked in a while. How are you?

2. Are you OK? You don't seem like yourself lately.

3. Hey, you seem frustrated today. I'm here for you.

4. Seems like something's up. Do you wanna talk about what's going on?

5. I'm worried about you and would like to know what's up so I can help.

Do:

• listen without judgement

• ask "how can I help?"

• let them know you care

• validate feelings

• listen to understand not fix

• patience

• keep in touch even without a response

Don't:

• interrupt or speak over

• tell them how they should feel

• jump in with solutions

• pressure them to ppeak

• be scared to speak about feelings

• be critical/blaming

Team: TK12Ambassador@ph.lacounty.gov

http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/pie/Education/MentalHealthToolKit/toolkit-teen.htm

• Equips with background info, language, and skills to talk about and support teen mental health

  • Includes de-escalation activities and convo starters

• Links to helpful resources and websites

  • Topics include suicide, healthy relationships, social media safety, alcohol and drug use, maintaining wellness, and exercise

talking about mental health can go a long way with navigating how to address mental health concerns and mental health outcomes through health based approaches

• I’d implement a policy that provides universal access to a nutritionist because I believe a lot of communities are ill informed about nutrition which negatively impacts their health outcomes 

  
  

•  i would implement a preventive care program, stemming from education at a very young age so as to counteract the devastation of future poor health outcomes. 

  
  

• Free or affordable insurance that actually gives people access to good doctors and care

  
  

• i would want to implement a policy on more nutritional regulations because i notice especially in low income areas that only fast food is in abundance and most communities don’t have access to healthier options either because of distance and or price. 

  • policy mandating a grocery store within a certain radius or smth

• policy work, AB272 Bill

• document to review before attending session

• expectation to discuss document