Your Adolescents & Young Adults May Not Be Protected
Immunization rates for recommended vaccines among adolescents and young adults are not where they need to be. Why?
UNITY Resources
• How to get more adolescents and young adults into the office
• How to take full advantage of every office visit to make sure adolescents and young adults are fully vaccinated
Raising Awareness of Teen Vaccines Needed: Protection is a Snap and other engaging posters
Protection is a Snap (Spanish Version Available)
Raising Awareness of Teen Vaccines Needed: Protect Your Self(ie) and other engaging posters
Protect Yourself(ie) (Spanish Version Available)
Protect & Connect Fact Sheet: Details on recommended adoleslescent vaccines and illnesses they protect.
Protect & Connect Fact Sheet
Getting teens to show up to your practice: Watch expert Dr. Tamera Coyne-Beasley discuss solutions for Sub-optimal Adherence Rates
Tamera Coyne-Beasley – Sub-Optimal Adherence Rates in Adolescent Vaccines
How to have a confident and concise "shared clinicial decision making" discussion with teens and young adults (and their parents)
An overview of the UNITY Consortium (the sponsor of the Three Cs study), reviews current gaps vs. adolescent immunization goals, and provides the rationale for the quality improvement study that focuses on the provider recommendation and applies motivational interviewing principles to the parent-provider conversation.
The Three Cs Background
As a physician, are you having trouble pushing parents to accept vaccinations for their children? This document gives some tips on motivational interviewing for hesitant or refusing parents.
Parental Disposition and Motivational Interviewing for Hesitant or Refusing Parents
UNITY Resources
How to make parents and teens more aware of what vaccines they need (potentially before they visit the office)
After a year of harassment, here’s how I deal with Antivaxxers…and where I come out on my
vaccination beliefs and advocacy.
Ethan Lindenberger: My Experience with Antivaxxers and Why I Continue to Advocate for Vaccination
Raising Awareness of Teen Vaccines Needed: Protect Your Self(ie) and other engaging posters
Protect Yourself(ie) (Spanish Version Available)
UNITY Resources
• How to get more adolescents and young adults vaccinated without it interfering with other priorities
• How to make vaccines a higher priority for everyone in the office
• Proven ideas for "automating" the vaccination process in the office
Scenario demonstrates Health Care Provider Consistent, Confident, Concise MenB vaccine recommendation (shared clinical decision making), using motivational interviewing techniques.
The Three Cs: Demo featuring recommendations with a 18 YO Teen who is accepting of MenB vaccine (1/3 videos)
Scenario demonstrates Health Care Provider Consistent, Confident, Concise recommendation for MenACWY and MenB (shared clinical decision making) vaccines, using motivational interviewing techniques.
The Three Cs: Demo featuring recommendations with a 16 YO Teen and Mom who are accepting of MenACWY and MenB vaccines (1/3 videos)
Scenario demonstrates Health Care Provider Consistent, Confident, Concise recommendation for MenACWY and MenB (shared clinical decision making) vaccines, using motivational interviewing techniques.
The Three Cs: Demo featuring recommendations with a 16 YO Teen and Mom who are accepting of MenACWY vaccine, but hesitant to accept MenB vaccine (1/3 videos)
Scenarios demonstrate HCP Consistent, Confident, Concise Recommendations of MenACWY and MenB (shared clinical decision making) vaccines with varying levels of acceptance, using motivational interviewing techniques that engage the parent and teen.
The Three Cs: Scenarios Featuring Healthcare Provider Vaccine Recommendations at Ages 16 and 18
UNITY Resources
• Ways to shorten discussions with parents and getting to "yes"
• Tools to address parents' questions before they come into the office
Scenario demonstrates Health Care Provider Consistent, Confident, Concise MenB vaccine recommendation (shared clinical decision making), using motivational interviewing techniques.
The Three Cs: Demo featuring recommendations with a 18 YO Teen who is accepting of MenB vaccine (1/3 videos)
Scenario demonstrates Health Care Provider Consistent, Confident, Concise recommendation for MenACWY and MenB (shared clinical decision making) vaccines, using motivational interviewing techniques.
The Three Cs: Demo featuring recommendations with a 16 YO Teen and Mom who are accepting of MenACWY and MenB vaccines (1/3 videos)
Scenario demonstrates Health Care Provider Consistent, Confident, Concise recommendation for MenACWY and MenB (shared clinical decision making) vaccines, using motivational interviewing techniques.
The Three Cs: Demo featuring recommendations with a 16 YO Teen and Mom who are accepting of MenACWY vaccine, but hesitant to accept MenB vaccine (1/3 videos)
Scenarios demonstrate HCP Consistent, Confident, Concise Recommendations of MenACWY and MenB (shared clinical decision making) vaccines with varying levels of acceptance, using motivational interviewing techniques that engage the parent and teen.
The Three Cs: Scenarios Featuring Healthcare Provider Vaccine Recommendations at Ages 16 and 18
UNITY Resources
• Ways to identify key stakeholders in my geography that could impact adolescent and young adult vaccination
• Ways to get all of the important stakeholders aligned and working together to help improve adolescent and young adult vaccination rates
After a year of harassment, here’s how I deal with Antivaxxers…and where I come out on my
vaccination beliefs and advocacy.
Ethan Lindenberger: My Experience with Antivaxxers and Why I Continue to Advocate for Vaccination
Click to contact us about becoming a CommUNITY participant and receiving a CommUNITY Toolkit.
CommUNITY participants receive a unique and proven CommUNITY Toolkit to support their action plans for improving adolescent and young adult immunization levels. The Toolkit provides a framework for engaging partners, setting goals, measuring impact, selecting resources and implementing your plan. Resources and templates are shared.
CommUNITY Toolkit (available only to CommUNITY participants)
Prioritizing protecting your teens: Watch expert Dr. L.J Tan discuss medical society letter call to action on adolescent vaccination
L.J Tan – Medical Society Letter on 16 YO Well Visit and Immunization Platform
Prioritizing Adolescents: Vaccinate at Ages 11-12 & 16: Watch experts Drs. Charles Irwin and Paul Offit
Prioritizing Adolescents: Vaccinate at Ages 11-12 & 16
CommUNITY is a partnership between Unity and organizations and communities seeking to increase vaccination rates for adolescents and young adults. Participating organizations receive the help needed to develop and implement a customized plan of action. Through CommUNITY you can engage your stakeholders, unify your community and increase immunization coverage for adolescents and young adults.
