Looking Back at National Adolescent Health Month

Published July 2022

This May, we celebrated the inaugural National Adolescent Health Month (NAHM) with grantee programs, key federal and non-federal partners, and youth around the country. NAHM emphasized the importance of building on young people’s strengths and potential, encouraging and supporting meaningful youth engagement in adolescent health activities, and highlighting key topics in adolescent health.

Thanks to your support, important messages from each of NAHM’s four weekly themes reached public health officials, healthcare providers, other youth-serving professionals, parents, and youth. On Twitter, more than 70 different accounts tweeted the two NAHM hashtags (#NationalAdolescentHealthMonth and #HealthyYouthNAHM) a total of 1,200 times! And more than 50,000 people read the OPA Bulletins.

OPA Highlighted Grantee Stories

In anticipation of NAHM, some TPP and Title X grantees submitted descriptions of how their programs help youth thrive. OPA highlighted these grantees on the website.

TPP Grantees:

Title X Grantees:

OPA's Grantees Participated in NAHM

Throughout the month, grantees promoted OPA's NAHM social media posts and graphics, created their own posts and materials, and shared resources for each weekly theme. Thank you for helping NAHM get off to a great start!

Mission West Virginia published five podcast episodes about NAHM relating to the weekly themes! This grantee achieved 110 unique downloads of the NAHM-related episodes.

Arizona Family Health Partnership published three articles relating to NAHM:

Ocean Health Initiatives, Inc. created their own branded graphic for NAHM, and Community Action Corporation of South Texas made a poster to celebrate NAHM in-person.

Ocean Health Initiatives Inc. and Community Action Corporation of South Texas participated in NAHM.