Want to target 1 of the 10 leading health indicators from Healthy People 2010? Would you like to spread awareness about any of these important health topics? Do you have a neat health outreach program that you've organized and would like to expand to more schools?

• Physical Activity
• Overweight and Obesity
• Tobacco Use
• Substance Abuse
• Responsible Sexual Behavior
• Mental Health
• Injury and Violence
• Environmental Quality
• Immunization
• Access to Health Care

AMSA's Child and Adolescent Health Interest Group would love for you to join us as we take on these issues! We are currently working with Action for Healthy Kids to spread awareness about nutrition education and healthy eating habits. Our goal is to have every school in the US teamed up with their Action for Healthy Kids State Team. If you are interested in working with any of these 10 health indicators, please contact the Child and Adolescent IG Coordinators.

TAKE ACTION

• You're the Cure
  Team up with the American Heart Association (AHA) to help work towards implementing legislation that focuses on heart disease and stroke.
  
  
• Action for Healthy Kids
  Get your school involved with this national organization.
  
  
• Join the Children's Health Insurance Program Effort

RESOURCES

CAH Medical Student Groups (Excel file)

CAH Local Chapter Projects
See what other chapters are doing across the country or submit your project to our Local Project Directory!

PROJECT GUIDES

Child Passenger Safety (CPS)

Child Abuse and Neglect Project-in-a-Box

Childhood & Adult Immunizations Project-in-a-Box

Guns and Violence Project-in-a-Box

Teen Mentor Program (PDF 96KB)
Medical students serve as mentors to teenagers who are substance abusers or at risk for substance abuse. 1999

Teen Pregnancy (PDF 157KB)
1998 AMSA National Project

Preventing Adolescent Violence: A Guide for Medical Students (PDF 105KB)
Discusses factors contributing to adolescent violence, public health approaches, what medical students can do. Includes list of resources. 1996

Elementary School Nutrition Education: A Teaching Curriculum (PDF 191KB)
From the AMSA chapter at the University of Pennsylvania. Provides detailed plans for 13 lessons medical students can present in their communities' elementary schools. Suggests props. 1996

STATS Manual (Students Teaching Aids to Students)
STATS is AMSA's award-winning project designed for medical students interested in teaching students in grades 4-12 about HIV infection and prevention. Attachment brochures and forms also available.

The BUDDIES Program Start-Up Kit (PDF 39KB)
Matching medical/health professional students with chronically ill children and their families to lend support and companionship and encourage the pediatric patient through the course of treatment.

Stamp out Smoking (PDF 129KB)
1997 AMSA National Project