Community Engaged Approach to Improve Health Education for Youth Impacted by Sexual Exploitation

Описание: Using a Community Engaged Approach to Improve Sexual Health Education and Outcomes Among Youth Impacted by Commercial Sexual Exploitation with Dr. Eraka Bath and Sarah Godoy, MSW

Eraka Bath, MD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Vice Chair for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute in the David Geffen School of Medicine. She is board certified in child and adolescent, adult and forensic psychiatry.

Sarah Godoy, MSW is a doctoral student at UNC Chapel Hill and Royster Fellow. Sarah was the project manager of the UCLA CSE Research Group from 2017 until 2020 and the Co-Investigator of their pilot study since 2019.

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Youth impacted by commercial sexual exploitation have myriad negative reproductive health outcomes, including high rates of unplanned pregnancy and sexual transmitted infections.

Yet, there are currently no sexual health interventions tailored to the specific needs of this population. Therefore, we partnered with youth impacted by commercial sexual exploitation, lived experience experts, and service providers to develop a culturally relevant, youth-friendly, and gender inclusive sexual health intervention.

The My Body, My Choice intervention, which includes an adapted, evidence-based, reproductive health curriculum and mHealth technology, aims to improve youths’ sexual health education and outcomes.

This session describes the process of using a community engaged approach to develop a digital health intervention as well as the lessons learned and preliminary outcomes.

Webinar was recorded on February 11, 2022.

This webinar is brought to you by the UCLA Center for Social Medicine and Humanities. Co-sponsored by the Research Theme in Health Equity & Translational Social Science (HETSS) and the Rangell Social Medicine Grand Rounds Series.

For more info, visit https://medschool.ucla.edu/hetss.