Supporting Well-Visits
The Department of Health’s Adolescent Health Team, in partnership with the Youth Advisory Council and other partners, has created tools to improve knowledge and raise awareness about adolescent well-visits among teens, young adults, and providers who support them.
Support Young People
- Explainer videos for teens: Use this short explainer video and support resources on adolescent well-visits to support your teen patients. These resources are created with teens for teens and cover how to prepare for and what to expect during an adolescent well-visit, why they are important, answers to important questions about well visits. You can also find tools to promote well-visits in your clinic or practice.
- Adolescent Well-Visits: What you need to know (PDF): Share this flyer about adolescent well-visits with teens and young adults in your practice.
- Teens, Privacy and Health Care: share this poster in your clinic or practice for teens to learn more about their healthcare rights.
Quality Improvement – For Clinics and Health Systems
The Department of Health, in collaboration with Health Care Authority and Washington’s Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, developed the following provider resources to support well-child checks in health care settings.
For questions about any resources, please contact the Health Systems Unit.
- Extended Hours Well-Care Visit Event Toolkit (PDF): A how-to guide for family and pediatric medical clinics to run efficient and satisfactory well-care visit new well-care day, evening, or weekend events for children and their parents or caregivers. Also useful for clinics that have conducted well-care events and want to refine their practices.
- Informative Flyers and Tips to Raise the Rate of Well-Care Visits (PDF): Tips based on real parent feedback in focus groups hosted by the Washington State Department of Health in fall 2017 and from clinics participating in the Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, Collaborative PIP’s Empanelment and Well-Care Visit Projects.
- Personalized Messages Ages 3 to 11 (PDF): Age-specific (3 to 11) messages based on AAP Bright Futures messaging. Created by Peninsula Community Health System.
- Other quality improvement tools for adolescent well visits:
- Sports Physicals: A Coding Conundrum – American Academy of Pediatrics
- Adolescent well-child exam starter guide (PDF) – Adolescent Health Initiative
- “Change package” toolkit to improve receipt of quality well visits for adolescents and young adults - National Adolescent and Young Adult Health Information Center
- Improving and Increasing Adolescent Well Visits – Michigan Medicine
- Best Practices Child Adolescent Well Care Visits (PDF) – Partnership Health Plan of California
Youth-Friendly Care Resources
Learn how to create a supportive and welcoming space for young people in health care.
- Youth Friendly Care Network: Join this statewide initiative to learn more about the principles of youth-friendly care, access our curated resource library, and connect with other youth-serving providers by joining our Community of Practice. Hosted on Department of Health’s Adolescent Health Team.
- Adolescent Health Initiative: Resources, training, and tools for youth-centered adolescent health care, quality improvement toolkits, and Sparks trainings on different topics.
- TALK: Toolkit for Adolescent Care: Training, resources, and standardized tools to support primary care clinicians in providing youth-friendly preventive care that addresses psychosocial and sexual health topics.
- Shifting from Pediatric to Adult Health Care: National resource center to help improve the shift from pediatric to adult health care through evidence based strategies.
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