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August 2025
 Note: We have moved to a new newsletter schedule. This newsletter is now released every other month instead of monthly.
Minnesota Partnership for Adolescent and Young Adult Health (PDF) (MNPAH) is an action plan to guide adolescent and young adult health in Minnesota. This collaboratively developed plan was created to motivate, engage, and inspire action. It recognizes the important contributions and amazing ideas that exist across our great state. Each month this newsletter will highlight a priority from the plan and showcase an adolescent health partner in Minnesota.
In this edition
Child and Teen Checkups, School Health Services, and School-Based Health Centers can help you prepare for back-to-school.
Child and Teen Checkups
Did you know a Child and Teen Checkups (C&TC) visit can be done at the same time as a sports physical?
Providers and clinics can help adolescents and their families on Minnesota Medicaid by combining their sports physical with a C&TC visit. Sports physicals, often done before school or athletic seasons, can also meet the requirements of a C&TC visit.
C&TC visits offer important preventive care including:
- Immunizations
- Hearing and vision screening
- Mental health and substance use screening
- Health education
Promoting the importance of C&TC visits for all adolescents and young adults (through age 20) helps improve health outcomes and reduces the need for multiple appointments. Learn how to align a sports physical with C&TC guidelines located at the bottom of the MDH Adolescents and Young Adults webpage.
School Health Services
Prepare now for back to school by getting an updated emergency action plan from your child’s health care provider and dedicated medication and supplies to keep at school.
Certain immunizations or a valid exemption are also required by law to attend school. See the immunization schedule for more information and learn more about MDH’s school health services team and resources.
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School-Based Health Centers
A comprehensive school-based health center is a health clinic in or near a school facility that offers comprehensive medical care, including preventive and behavioral health services. These services are provided by licensed and qualified health professionals in accordance with federal, state, and local law, to all students and youth within a school or district regardless of ability to pay, insurance coverage, or immigration status.
Find out if your community has a school-based health center by using this map.
Register now for the 2025 Minnesota School-Based Health Alliance Summit: Open More Doors on Nov. 13, in St. Paul. This event will bring together health care professionals, educators, and community leaders to explore innovative strategies and foster meaningful change in health care and education.
New resource: Problematic media use screening and intervention tools for clinicians
The Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health have recently released resources on how to identify problematic media use in youth.
The following signs may help identify when a child or teen’s internet use is becoming problematic:
- Changes in behavior: physically, emotionally, socially, and functionally.
- Lower grades due to overuse of technology.
- Being emotionally withdrawn.
- Avoiding offline social connections.
- Important activities like sleep and exercise are being crowded out.
- Using technology and digital media as the primary way to calm emotions.
Visit the center’s webpage for resources, prevention tips, and evidence-based screening tools.
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Share your success stories
The Minnesota Partnership for Adolescent Health is seeking stories from community partners to share how they are engaging with the partnership.
Use this form to include your stories. These success stories will be used to:
- Understand the Minnesota Partnership for Adolescent and Young Adult Health's impact.
- Continuously improve our support for the Partnership.
- Showcase work to celebrate success, make connections, and inspire others!
This form has been added to the Minnesota Partnership for Adolescent and Young Adult Health webpage. Please share widely with your partners!
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