Barriers to asymptomatic screening and other STD services for adolescents and young adults: focus group discussions

BACKGROUND: Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are a major public health problem among young people and can lead to the spread of HIV. Previous studies have primarily addressed barriers to STD care for symptomatic patients. The purpose of our study was to identify perceptions about existing barriers to and ideal services for STDs, especially asymptomatic screening, among young people in a southeastern community. METHODS: Eight focus group discussions including 53 White, African American, and Latino youth (age 14–24) were conducted. RESULTS: Perceived barriers to care included lack of knowledge of STDs and available services, cost, shame associated with seeking services, long clinic waiting times, discrimination, and urethral specimen collection methods. Perceived features of ideal STD services included locations close to familiar places, extended hours, and urine-based screening. Television was perceived as the most effective route of disseminating STD information. CONCLUSIONS: Further research is warranted to evaluate improving convenience, efficiency, and privacy of existing services; adding urine-based screening and new services closer to neighborhoods; and using mass media to disseminate STD information as strategies to increase STD screening

Bi+ Nederland vragenlijst (2020)

Vragenlijstonderzoek onder bijna 3.000 bi+ deelnemers. Deze gegevens zijn tussen november en december 2020 verzameld

Face the facts: growing youth employment

Growing youth employment: why is entrepreneurship an attractive strategy? Today, the job market in Australia is relatively buoyant – but not for young people. Australia is facing some of the highest youth unemployment and underemployment rates in recent times, particularly in regional centres. Structural changes in the Australian economy have left young people with fewer opportunities and with reduced prospects of any self-correcting, market-led solution to accessing sustainable employment. One strategy is not to find jobs but to create jobs – jobs that may look very different from existing ones, in markets that may not even exist now. Entrepreneurship, in its various forms, is the innovative response to this recognition. This briefing provides information on ways in which commercial and social entrepreneurship can create new employment, learning and engagement opportunities particularly suited for young Australians. It suggests that entrepreneurship can help address structural issues in the Australian labour market by diversifying the range of business enterprises that are developed, thus offering both additional training and employment opportunities for a range of young people, and encouraging more young people to develop their own enterprises. The term ‘entrepreneurship’ covers a wide range of activities. While in its most literal meaning, an entrepreneur can be anyone who operates a business, the term typically refers to the work of developing businesses that are distinguished by innovation in the business model adopted, by a higher level of risk associated with that innovation (especially with regard to the creation of new markets) and by the entrepreneur(s) retaining a significant level of control over the creation of the new business. Internationally, entrepreneurship is recognised as an increasingly important mechanism for stimulating economic development. Most actions designed to expand the entrepreneurial economy as a whole are likely to advantage young people. This is because many young people (particularly those experiencing disadvantage) are amongst the beneficiaries of expanding social enterprises, both as social entrepreneurs and as those receiving training and employment within social enterprises. Additionally, young people already form a large proportion of those interested in developing startups, because they are more likely to have skills in aspects of information and communications technologies, so often important for startups, and because they are often the demographic of choice as employees of high-tech startups with a public profile. The social enterprise and startup sectors have identified measures to develop Australia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. We have summarised both current initiatives and stakeholders’ suggestions for ways forward for public policy and practice to be developed for entrepreneurship to grow youth unemployment

Training for new careers: the community apprentice program developed by the Center for Youth and Community Studies, Howard University.

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Accrediting prior learning : a training pack for advisers and assessors /

Titre du portefeuilleIntroducing APL -- v. 1. t. 1. Conducting the initial interview -- v. 1. t. 2. Advising candidates : constructing portfolios and preparing for assessment -- v. 1. t. 3. Planning and conducting a briefing session -- v. 2. t. 1. Introducing -- v. 2. t. 2. Evaluating evidence and developing and initial assessment plan -- v. 2. t. 3. Reviewing the portfolio and conducting the assessmen

The Youth and AIDS Projects Style Guide

This style guide was created by students enrolled in McKinley Green's community engaged learning section of WRIT 3671 during spring semester 2020.Students in WRIT 3671: "Visual Rhetoric and Document Design" partnered with The Youth and AIDS Projects, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit, to create a style guide for the organization