Partnering With Youth to Enhance Healthcare Access and Experience: Lessons Learned From a Teen Advisory Group

This paper focuses on how a group of young people from across the country served as members of a teen advisory group (TAG) to develop innovative programs for healthcare settings. Said TAG members provided invaluable insight that informed and drove a cyclical program development process. The TAG members began by sharing their experiences with healthcare services and providers, then they envisioned ideal healthcare encounters. Such experiences, along with the youths' continuous feedback, led to the development and fine-tuning of three program ideas focused on organizational change to improve adolescent healthcare.