Moderator: Chris-Ann Melissa Knight

Round table: Adolescent sexual and reproductive health and comprehensive sexuality education

Panelists:

• Ventraken Chandra-Mouli (WHO): Scaling up, sustaining and enhancing sexuality education programmes in resource-constrained and conservative contexts: Replicable lessons from positive-deviant countries.

• Allison Drayton (CARICOM): Caribbean assessment on CSE

Youth panel discussion:

• Daniel Natera Narine – T&T FPA

• Stephanie Ferreira Torres – Famia Planea Aruba

• Vivian Santillan Maslucan – Innpares Peru

• Kobe Juman Smith – Merundoi

Moderator: Dona Da Costa Martinez

Roundtable: Child and Early Marriage and Unions

1. Gabrielle Hosein: Institute of Gender and Development Studies IUWI)

2. Dahna Alvarado: Jovenas Latidas

3. Vanessa Blanco: Jovenas Latidas

4. Sontee Davis: (Eve for Life)

Moderator: Diana Restrepo Mejia

1. Joan Thomas: Youth leaving State care in Jamaica in readiness for Independent Living: A cross-sectional survey

2. Ishmael Nicholson: Adolescent Participation in Development of The Criminal Justice (Exploitation of Children in the Commission of Offenses) Bill, 2021 in Belize

3. Felicia Scott-Wellington & Renee Morgan-Brown: The 21st Century Teen: Understanding Adolescent Brain Development and Risk-Taking behaviors in a virtually connected world

Moderator: Ariana Seeraj

1. Kristie Duff: Climate change knowledge, attitudes & Practices in Guyana

2. Shonetta Lowe: The CARICOM Reality of a Green Economy

3. Kim Newton-James: A Participatory Communication Approach for Engaging Saint Lucian Youth in Community Action Towards Building Resilience to Climate Change (CC) and Adverse Human Health Outcomes.

4. Alexandra Raymundo Lopez: Youth advocating for Climate Justice in El Salvador with the support of UNICEF and the Lutheran World Federation

Title: Providing quality health care services for adolescents

Moderators: Sonja Caffe and Abigail Harrison

Health services for adolescents tend to be limited in scope, fragmented, and often do not respond to the life stage and needs of adolescents. During this workshop, WHO guidance will be presented and discussed with participants. Key issues that will be addressed include:

• A standard-driven approach to adolescent health services

• How to incorporate considerations of the emerging autonomy of adolescents in the health care setting.

• Motivational interviewing as a tool to improve communication with adolescents in the clinic.

Title: Digital youth-focused solutions for the health and wellbeing of young people

Moderators: Sheoran Bhupendra and Oscar San Roman

Digital interventions to improve the health of young people are increasing in numbers and scope but remain mainly experimental and “hit and miss”. In 2020, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and UNESCO released the Youthcentred digital health interventions: A framework for planning, developing and implementing solutions with and for young people (https:// www.who.int/publications/i/ item/9789240011717).

During the workshop, key steps in the development of of digital intervention creation to promote better health among adolescents and youth will be reviewed, and participants will engage in practical exercises to improve their knowledge and skills.

Title: Knowledge Cafe

Moderator: Shanti Singh Anthony

Interactive session to have creative conversations on selected posters, to gain a deeper understanding of the topics presented.

Title: It’s only fair: including adolescents and youth in research Moderators: Lisa Koppelman and Sarah Carrecedo

While key ethical aspects of research involving minors mirror those of research involving adults (e.g., social and scientific value of research), pediatric research presents unique ethical issues:

• Children’s decisions are subject to authority/influence of parents, guardians, and/or other authority figures (generates ambiguity around how to best consider, discern, honor children’s preferences during informed consent process)

• Assessment of potential risks/benefits especially challenging in context of pediatric research (burdens of trial participation may vary with child’s age, maturity level, medical condition, situational factors)

• Research permissible among adults following their informed consent may not be permissible among children (cannot give informed, autonomous consent)

The workshop facilitators aim to:

1. Provide a brief overview, inclusive of ethical and scientific underpinnings regarding the importance of including children/young people in health research to advance fairness in health care.

2. Offer respectful and representative inclusion off young peoples’ voices (one facet of this work).

Title: Writing visually appealing reports using adobe express

Moderator: Shanti Singh-Anthony

The development of visually appealing reports, presentations and other materials is an important skill to present ideas and proposals to donors and other stakeholders, and to capture the interest of target populations.

During this workshop participants will become familiar with this free software and engage in practical exercises to improve their report-writing skills.

Title: Let your voice be heard through Advocacy Letters; I Deserve a #BetterClimate4MyHealth

Moderator: Chalsey Gill Anthony and Tecla Fontenard

At CCAYH II, the CCCCC intends to launch its #BetterClimate4MyHealth Campaign, a youth-led public awareness campaign for change designed to address the impact of climate change on the health of Caribbean people and the solutions needed to ensure young people are at the heart of resilience efforts. One of the first activities in the campaign is “Letter to my Leader”, inviting young people to write a letter to the leaders of their country as they prepare for critical negotiations on the climate crisis at COP27. This workshop session will: