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Module 16/Unit 13
Specific Objective #2: Demonstrate how to evaluate and plan youthfriendly
services
CONTENT
Knowledge/Attitudes/Skills
ORGANIZING ADOLESCENT
SERVICES
1. Conduct a needs assessment of
adolescent services provided at the
health facility.
2. Identify existing problems in providing
an integral quality service for
adolescent clients.
3. Identify human resources and
materials available in the institution.
4. Develop proposals to solve the
problems identified.
5. Present an action plan to implement
the proposals.
HOW TO CONDUCT AN ANALYSIS OF
EXISTING SERVICES
1. Talk with the staff at the facility,
especially the clinic manager
providing RH services to assess
willingness, to strengthen adolescent
services. The head of the clinic will
be key to leading all staff to change
attitudes and practices toward
adolescents.
2. Collect information using the
assessment tool on the range and
quality of adolescent services at the
selected facility. The assessment
tool will help you to:
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Obtain general background
information about the facility, its
size, and its location.
Training/Learning Methods
(Time Required)
DISCUSSION AND FACILITY
ASSESSMENT (1/2 DAY)
The trainer should:
• Have arranged in advance for a
facility assessment of youth-friendly
services. Depending on the number
of participants and the number of
nearby facilities, the trainer may
arrange for more than one facility to
be assessed and assign some
groups to one facility and some
groups to the other facility.
• Explain to Px that in order to improve
services for adolescents, most, if not
all, of the characteristics discussed in
the previous strategic objective
should be present in each facility.
• Briefly discuss the information on
Organizing Adolescent Services
found in the content section on the
left-hand side of the page.
• Pass out the Clinic Assessment Tool
(Px Handout 13.1) to each Px.
13.1
• Explain to Px that they will visit a
nearby facility and that each person
will conduct her/his own assessment
using the handout. The purpose of
the assessment is to prepare each Px
to conduct an assessment of his/her
own facility. The assessment will take
about a half day.
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