The Center for Healthy Youth Development (CHYD) works to integrate equitable Healthy Youth Development principles into all systems of practice, program, and policy. In partnership with communities statewide, we develop, evaluate, disseminate, and apply evidence-based best practices in Healthy Youth Development to locally-identified challenges.
The Shlafer Program is an independent research program that envisions and supports equitable health outcomes for children and families impacted by incarceration. Our community-engaged, research-based interventions drive positive change within systems, communities, families, and individuals.
Evidence-based, free resources for public health professionals working in adolescent health to help build their individual, agency’s, and state’s capacity to support adolescent development, youth engagement, and youth-centered clinical care – in policy and practice.
YouthCHAT Educators are trained as simulated patients employed by the Division to participate in interactive educational sessions with clinical trainees. Educators help interdisciplinary adolescent health professionals hone their clinical interviewing skills through these sessions, and consult both internally and externally on adolescent and young adult health projects.
The Youth and AIDS Projects is a non-profit organization in collaboration with the University of Minnesota's Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health that provides HIV testing, HIV medical case management, HIV prevention services, and health education programs for young people living in the Twin Cities.