Providers and Teens Communicating for Health

PATCH La Crosse, managed by Great Rivers United Way, implements the Teen Educator Program. This program promotes open, honest, and medically accurate conversations between adolescents and their health care providers with the goal of improving the way youth access, receive, and experience health care. This program strives to bring youth voice into important adolescent health conversations while providing the knowledge, resources, support, skills, and opportunities needed for youth to become healthy, connected, and thriving adults.

Teen Educators are hired and trained to facilitate the PATCH for Providers and PATCH for Teens: Peer to Peer Workshops throughout the community.

As part of the PATCH Teen Educator Program, Great Rivers United Way aims for youth and health professionals alike to grow in their knowledge, confidence, and ability to access/provide youth friendly services as young people transition from pediatric to adult-based care.

To request a workshop from PATCH La Crosse, please contact PATCH Teen Educator Program Coordinator Danielle Krozel via the contact information below.

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Danielle Krozel, MPH Teen Educator Program Coordinator patch@gruw.org (608) 796-1400, ext. 115