Faculty, staff and students affiliated with UNC School of Social Work, Global Social Development Innovations (GSDI), recently participated in the Virtual International Consortium for Development (ICSD) 22nd Biennial Conference.
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.