Session: Adolescents with Disabilities--Surveillance and Mentoring
3342.0: Monday, November 17, 2003: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
Adolescents with Disabilities--Surveillance and Mentoring
This session provides surveillance data on health and risk behaviors on youth with disabilities from several states, and provides information on several model programs on mentoring adolescents.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Moderator(s):Dorothy E. Nary, MA
4:30 PMYouth Risk Behavior Survey: Health risks among Oregon high school students with disabilities
Willi Horner-Johnson, PhD, Charles E. Drum, JD, PhD, Nasreen Abdullah, Beth Morrell, MPH
4:45 PMSelf-report disability indicators & health risk behavior profiles among adolescents
Rune J. Simeonsson, PhD, Janey Sturtz McMillen, PhD, Bradley J. McMillen, PhD, Donald Lollar, EdD
5:00 PMHealth-risk behaviors, quality of life and disability status: A report from the Washington State Healthy Youth Survey 2002
Tari Topolski, PhD, Donald L Patrick, PhD, MSPH, Todd C. Edwards, PhD
5:15 PMRole Models for Youth With Disabilities
Lita H. Jans, PhD, Lewis Kraus, MPH, MCP
5:30 PMJump Start: Using mentoring to promote career development and recovery for young adults with psychiatric disabilities
Alexandra Bowers, MPH, MSW, Dori S. Hutchinson, ScD
5:45 PMHigh School/High Tech: Assisting students with disabilities to find high tech careers
Lewis Kraus, MPH, MCP, Susan Stoddard, PhD
Organized by:Disability Forum
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA