Teen Health

The Teen Health Clinic operates from the Juneau-Douglas High School and provides medical services two-days per week, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Corporation and Public Health provide medical services.

The Clinic also provides counseling services on health issues and concerns related to physical and mental health. Services are coordinated by the adolescent health care nurse.

The Teen-Parent Project in which pregnant and parenting teenagers participate in a series of classes on child development, parenting and vocational education is also provided by the Clinic. Transportation, daycare and support services are offered to participants. The project is funded by the state Department of Education.

For more information call 463-1900 ext. 444 or 463-1950 ext. 445.

Other Youth Programs

Alaska Youth Initiative (AYI)

The City and Borough of Juneau (CBJ); Department of Health and Social Services (H&SS); through the Juneau Mental Health Center (JMHC), provides individualized, wrap-around services through the Alaska Youth Initiative (AYI). The CBJ - H&SS, JMHC has been providing AYI wrap-around services for youth over the past 9 years. Funding for the program is provided through a State grant, and Medicaid funds.

Underlying the AYI services to youth, are the provisions of individualized, wrap-around services to youth and their families in the most normative and least-restrictive environment possible. Services for the youth are built around the needs of the youth and family, providing an unconditional care approach to service delivery. This means that youth are not rejected from the AYI services due to their severity or level of need.

Each youth is supported through a treatment team that has at its center, the youth and family. Additional members to the treatment team may include a Mental Health Clinician, school staff, a State representative, and others identified by the family and youth as supports. AYI is committed to developing needed resources for youth if unavailable within the community setting as defined within the youth's Individualized Family Services Plan.

Access to Children Comprehensive Environmental Support Services (ACCESS)

The Juneau Mental Health Center's ACCESS program provides therapeutic interventions to address the mental health needs of severely emotionally disturbed children and adolescents that may be at risk for institutionalization. The program offers services which are home, community and school-based, providing them in the most normative and least restrictive environment possible. Efforts are made to maximize the client's strengths and the role of existing supports, emphasizing the involvement of the child's family and caregivers, while minimizing dependency upon professional supports. Therapeutic services are detailed in an individualized treatment plan that is developed by mental health professionals and significant individuals in the youth's life. Therapeutic services are designed to uphold the dignity of the individual, be culturally appropriate and are implemented in the least intrusive method possible. Program staff assess client functional abilities, advocate for needed services, facilitate access to these services, coordinate their delivery and monitor client progress toward their treatment goals.

Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Treatment (ADAPT)

The ADAPT program is a chemical dependency treatment program consisting of pretreatment, treatment, after care, and life skill components. Basic components of each phase may include diagnosis and/or assessment, individual, family and group counseling, care coordination, rehabilitation treatment services, urinalysis testing and detoxification, if necessary. Rehabilitation treatment services are those services needed to improve the recipient's functioning level through supporting or strengthening behavioral, emotional or intellectual skills necessary to live, learn, or work in the recipient's environment.

Student assistance is a fundamental non-treatment substance abuse service offered at the middle school and high school levels. In addition to being the entry point for ADAPT, these certified counselors provide drug abuse screenings for any student in need, conduct classroom education as requested, serve as a point of general drug and alcohol information, and are the designated entity to which all students violating the School District's Chemical Policy are referred.

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