The study will flip the traditional health services model by working closely with schools to bring every young adolescent, around age 13, and enrolled in their last year of primary school into a health clinic.
Very little is known about how a youth’s positive and negative experiences with sexual identity development may impact their mental health. UNC School of Social Work assistant professor Will Hall and fellow researchers hope to provide more answers to these questions.
The four-year grant, awarded from the U.S. Health Services and Resources Administration, will fund the new project, UNC-PrimeCare4Youth – an initiative that will train 116 master’s-level behavioral health students from Carolina’s social work, school counseling, and professional counseling programs.