School-based Psychosocial 2

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  1. It is important that we know
  2. the community's demographics and socioeconomic status
  3. in this case. In our program planning.
  4. Knowing this information can help identify adolescent
  5. groups risk for mental illness and injury.
  6. Knowing this information also
  7. is a critical component in the community health needs assessment data,
  8. intervention program planning,
  9. as well as providing us the data baseline data for our program evaluation.
  10. The demographics that I have here
  11. was found in the U. S. Census Bureau website,
  12. the U. S. Census Bureau and other demographic.
  13. All data can be easily retrieved online.
  14. The Bridgewater Raritan Regional School District students
  15. body is 48% female and 52% male.
  16. About 45.3% are white students,
  17. 29.9% are Asian or Pacific Islander students.
  18. 3.2%. Our block
  19. 18% are Hispanic.
  20. Um additionally,
  21. of students identify as having two or more racist.
  22. The majority,
  23. the per capita income in New Jersey is 1.3 times that of New Jersey as a whole.
  24. And 3.1% of Bridgewater residents live below poverty line.
  25. In regards to adolescents and the social determinants of
  26. health binner at all stated in their study that
  27. um throughout adolescence,
  28. the consequence of purity and brain development results
  29. in the production of new sets of behaviors
  30. and capacities that facilitate transitions in the familiar
  31. social and educational domains and health behavior.
  32. So having an intervention
  33. at this age is really significant to
  34. the outcomes of our program
  35. regarding physical and hormonal adolescent development.
  36. The health and human services Office of
  37. Population Affairs report titled adolescent development explained,
  38. pointed out that while all adolescents
  39. experienced adolescents primary physical development milestones,
  40. the timing varies significantly between
  41. and within sexist.
  42. Some teenagers show physical symptoms of maturity earlier
  43. than others and some later
  44. due to professing changes,
  45. adolescents may feel self conscious or worry they don't
  46. fit in if they don't look like their peers.
  47. Um And adolescent and health risk adolescents are at risk for mental health issues,
  48. which is the which is the problem that we're
  49. trying to have an intervention within our program.
  50. Um substance abuse, smoking, obesity, obesity,
  51. sexually transmitted diseases,
  52. Teen and unplanned births,
  53. homelessness,
  54. academic issues, school dropout homicide, suicide and motor vehicle collisions.
  55. Okay.
  56. Uh
  57. Also suicide is the third leading cause of death among New Jersey Teens were
  58. 291 individual aged 10 - 24 died by suicide between 2016 and 2018.
  59. That gives us a rate of 5.7 for 100,000