Moderators: Sheila Forrester and Terez Lord

Plenary: Advancing and safeguarding the health and wellbeing of adolescents and youth in the Caribbean

Panelists:

• Anshu Mohan (PMNCH): Adolescent well-being: 1.8 billion acting on the Call to Action.

• Jonathan Klein (IAAH): Adolescent health, COVID-19, and the Call to Action for Adolescent Health and Wellness

• Sonja Caffe (PAHO/WHO): The status of and current priorities for the health and wellbeing of young people in the Caribbean

• Kendell Vincent (CRYC): Challenges and priorities for the health and wellbeing of young people in the Caribbean: a youth perspective

• Elizabeth Lloyd (consultant): Key results and achievements of CCAYH I

Moderators: Kim Newton-James and Oscar San Roman

1. Dr. Claudina Cayetano: The impact of COVID-19 on mental, neurological and substance Use services in the Americas

2. Jonathan Manzano: The effect of COVID-19, lockdown & upcoming exams on form 5/6 students in Trinidad and Tobago

3. Jean Sano: LGBTI+ youth’s human capital in the Dominican Republic

4. Fay King : The voice of youth in health – A COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Moderators: Sandra Jones and Jaemar Johnson

1. Joan Thomas: A comparison of illnessrelated stigma in adolescents with various health conditions

2. Ana Lucia Mendoza Briones: Adolescent participation for the prevention of STIs, HIV/ AIDS and COVID-19

3. Jada Thomas: Collaborative HIV Adolescents Mental Health Programme (CHAMP): A community participatory framework

4. Maurissa Jemmott: Sexual Health and Reproductive Health & Rights, HIV and STI’s - Looking through the lens of youth being born HIV positive and being in residential care

Moderators: Sheila Samiel and Shamar Wedderburn

1. Audrey Morris (PAHO): Nutrition and Physical Activity in Caribbean Adolescent

2. Elizabeth Lloyd: Nutrition, Physical Activity, Sports, and Youth Development managing childhood obesity: are we getting it right?

3. Samantha Powell: Health Risk Behaviors in Jamaican Adolescents with Chronic Illness

Moderators: Michele Small-Bartley and Christina Williams

Plenary: Addressing the mental health of adolescents and youth in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic

Panelists:

•Claudina Cayetano (PAHO): The impact of COVID-pandemic on mental health and the role of youth in building back better

• Diana Restrepo (UNICEF): The State of the World’s Children 2021 - On My Mind: promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health

• Abigail Harrison: The Voices of Jamaican Youth - SOWC 2021 (Jamaica)

• Simone Bishop-Matthews (Healthy Caribbean Coalition): Caribbean Youth Mental Health Call to Action

Moderators: Denise Chevanse and Stephen Andrews

1. Shakira Emtage-Cave: Dance4Life: Youth-focused SRHR/peer-led CSE

2. Leila Raphael: Dance4life Barbados: lessons learned from engaging vulnerable, out-of-school youth

3. Dennis Glasgow: Empowering Teen Mothers Program

4. Adler Bynoe: Barriers and facilitators to the provision of contraceptive services to adolescents via primary healthcare facilities in Antigua: knowledge, attitudes, and skills of healthcare providers

Title: Clinical updates

Moderators: Abigail Harrison and Asha Pemberton

A case-based approach will be utilized to highlight common cases that the healthcare provider working with adolescents may face in practice.

Focus will be placed on encouraging the HCP to take appropriate and targeted histories from the patient, perform relevant physical examinations and institute management as required.

Title: Delivering CSE to very young adolescents via animated videos

Moderator: AMAZE Team

Storytelling workshop:

• Third-person storytelling as a tool for health education

• Delivering CSE to very young adolescents via animated videos