The Canadian Paediatric Society Adolescent Health Committee offers Position Statements and Practice Points about current youth health topics such as: contraception, cannabis, smoking, e-cigarettes, harm reduction, sexual orientation, dieting, sexting, eating disorders and teen pregnancy.  

Confidential Healthcare for Youth:

• MyHealth.Alberta.ca offers information for youth, their parents/caregivers and healthcare professionals about the provision of confidential healthcare for youth.

Mental Health Resources:

• AHS Addiction & Mental Health for Health Professionals offers information about AHS Addiction & Mental Health initiatives and programs, as well as links to resources, education, and service directories.

Trauma Informed Care: 

• To better understand medical trauma that youth may have experienced, review these AHS Trauma Informed Care resources.

Transitioning youth with chronic conditions or disabilities to adult care:

• Take this online course offered by University of British Columbia. This is a short continuing medical education course designed to educate health providers on ways to better facilitate the continuity of care for youth with chronic health conditions and disabilities who are transitioning from pediatric to adult healthcare.
• Watch this video about how to encourage youth to participate in their healthcare
• Review the AHS Self-Management site for tips and resources to support your patients in developing self-management skills.
• For fun, watch this 1989 “Transition” video.
• Watch Through My Eyes. This is a young adult’s perspective about the transition from pediatric to adult healthcare.

Child and adolescent mental health:

• Healthy Minds Healthy Children provides online continuing professional development courses for healthcare professionals about current issues in child and adolescent mental health.

Motivational interviewing to promote positive behavior change in patients:

• To offer care in the context of what matters most to patients and their families, and build patients’ motivation to actively engage in their care so they make decisions that will suit them best, take the AHS HealthChange Methodology® workshop.