The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) Division of Immunization will host an Adolescent Immunization Webcast on June 2, 2009 from 10:00 am to 12:10 p.m. The goals of this Webcast are to:

• Promote adolescent immunizations in Michigan
• Educate providers from a variety of settings about newly-recommended adolescent vaccines
• Overcome barriers to vaccinating adolescents
• Discuss strategies for increasing adolescent immunization rates
• Outreach to and share best practices from a diverse group of settings, including OBGYN, Juvenile Detention Facilities, School-Based Health Centers, College/University Health Centers, HIV/STD Clinics, Family Planning Clinics, Private Providers, VFC Providers, and Local Health Departments.
• Give providers the tools to communicate with parents, pre-teens, teens, and adolescents through college age about the importance of vaccination
• Overarching Goal: To protect Michigan residents from vaccine preventable diseases.