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Step-Up: Promoting Youth Mental Health and Development in Inner-City High Schools.

Stacey Alicea1, Gisselle Pardo, Kelly Conover

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1230, New York, NY 10029, USA stacey.alicea@mssm.edu.

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Inner-city minority youth face mental health challenges due to community stressors. The Step-Up program offers a culturally sensitive, school-based model to improve youth mental health and development.

Keywords:
Adolescent mental healthFamilyInterventionSchool-basedUrban youth

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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Adolescent Psychology
  • Community Mental Health

Background:

  • Inner-city African American and Latino youth experience significant mental health risks from poverty, violence, and lack of resources.
  • Disadvantaged urban environments impede positive youth development, leading to issues like impaired judgment and unsafe behaviors.
  • Urban adolescents often avoid beneficial mental health services, highlighting the need for accessible, culturally relevant care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe the Step-Up program, a novel, high school-based mental health service delivery model.
  • To outline the clinical goals, theoretical underpinnings, and key components of the Step-Up intervention.
  • To present preliminary data on youth engagement with the Step-Up program.

Main Methods:

  • The Step-Up model intervenes across multiple ecological domains: school, family, and community.
  • It targets youth mental health difficulties by integrating individual, family, and community-level clinical components.
  • The program incorporates theory-driven, evidence-based interventions to enhance social problem-solving and life skills.

Main Results:

  • Preliminary data on youth engagement for two student cohorts are presented.
  • The Step-Up model demonstrates an approach to bolster key family, youth, and school processes.
  • The program intervenes across inner-city ecological domains to address youth mental health.

Conclusions:

  • Culturally sensitive and contextually relevant mental health services are critical for urban, low-income minority adolescents.
  • The Step-Up model offers a promising approach to improving mental health and positive youth development in this population.
  • Novel service delivery models addressing multifaceted needs are essential for urban youth well-being.