title: ARSH 7: Community adolescent health care and education: experience of an innovative approach.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The main objective of the project was to create a community adolescent health care and education initiative with an innovative approach of educating all community stakeholders involved in promoting adolescent health.
  
  
  METHODS
  Step 1: Conceptualization and strategy planning for combined training; Step II: Preparation of teaching module, flip charts and pamphlets in local language; Step III: Hands on training of community trainers; Step IV: Sensitization of the stakeholder leadership to ensure the cooperation of all stakeholders; Step V: Formation of Teen clubs; Step VI: The combined health education programs at community outlets; Step VII: Detection of adolescent health issues by ASHA and anganwadi workers; Step VIII: Setting up of Saturday adolescent clinics at CHCs as a community referral facility.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Under 1,060 programs, 34,851 community stakeholders could be trained together including 15,777 mothers, 14,565 adolescents, 2,236 ASHA workers, 2,021 anganwadi workers, and 252 community leaders. The concept of combined training of community stakeholders was found to be feasible and acceptable to the participants.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The experience of the CDC-NRHM-AHDP project has shown that ASHA workers and anganwadi workers could be important link persons between adolescents and the health providers.
authors.affiliation: Child Development Centre, Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, 695 011, Kerala, South India, cdcmkc@gmail.com.
authors.forename: M K C
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Nair
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Leena
authors.forename: Babu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: Preethi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Menon
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Jameela
authors.forename: Paul Swamidhas
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Sudhakar Russell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003150:Community Health Workers / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation
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