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Adolescents and the Law - California

Audioconference, Recorded: March 30, 2006
Via telephone

About This Training
This 90 minute audioconference presents information on various legal issues that affect family planning agencies that serve adolescents in California. Topics included client confidentiality; the laws and reporting procedures needed to report sexual coercion, abuse and assault; and related services accessible to teens. Nursing CEUs were offered to participating callers.

This session focuses on:

  1. confidentiality requirements when working with teens
  2. when parental permission is required for services to teens
  3. how and when to report sexual coercion, abuse or assault
  4. how to store charts and records of medical testing and other procedures

To play each section, click on the underlined section head. You will need Windows Media Player to stream these files. Total play time is 1:29:58.

Intro: Welcome and Introductions (David Couch, 1:34)

Part 1: Legal Issues (R. Gudeman, 37:47)

Part 2: Clinical Issues (E. Monasterio, 29:54)

Part 3: Questions and Answers (20:42)

Download handouts for this session here.

Intended Audience: Staff working at family planning clinics serving adolescents in California.

Trainers: Rebecca Gudeman, JD, MPA, is an attorney with the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland who works on child and adolescent health issues. She specializes in issues of consent, confidentiality and interagency exchange of information. She founded and directed the first in the nation School-Based Legal Services Program for the Children's Rights Project at Public Counsel in Los Angeles. Ms. Gudeman is a co-author of Legal Issues for Pregnant and Parenting Teens in California (1998).

Erica Bisgyer Monasterio, MSN, FNP, is Clinical Professor at the UCSF Department of Pediatrics and Nursing. Her expertise is in working with high risk clients in community-based settings and the development and monitoring of primary care programs which serve marginalized populations. Her special interests are in the areas of sexuality, risk assessment, and behavior change.

Moderator: David Couch, Training Coordinator, Center for Health Training

 

 

  

 

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