title: Employment and training programs: a context for reaching out of school youth with mental health and other health programs.
abstract: Youth who have dropped out of school engage in risky health behaviors and have limited access to health care. It is difficult for health experts to develop programs that successfully reach this population. Employment and training programs for youth who have dropped out are a potential venue for addressing the many health needs of these youth. This article reviews the history of such programs and the available evidence about their health services and health outcomes. It also describes the development of a mental health intervention in an employment and training program in Baltimore and the lessons learned from that experience.
authors.affiliation: Center for Adolescent Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. fsonenst@jhsph.edu
authors.forename: Freya Lund
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Sonenstein
authors.forename: Beth Dail
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.forename: S Darius
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Tandon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015142:Baltimore; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004651:Employment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D008403:Mass Screening; D011204:Poverty Areas; D016730:Program Development; D013332:Student Dropouts; D055815:Young Adult