South Shore Hospital’s
Youth Health Connection

Community, Parents, and Youth

The Youth Health Connection is a collaborative network of community leaders, parents, youth, educators, law enforcement officials and health care providers focused on optimizing youth physical health and mental well-being. Through a comprehensive approach, our program helps raise community awareness about youth development – both physical and emotional – as well as the current health issues facing local children and adolescents.

We provide a wide range of resources, including educational forums and a speakers’ bureau. Our experts target significant areas of concern, such as adolescent depression, grief response in children, impact of cancer on the family, pediatric obesity and diabetes, emergency preparedness for schools, cardiac health, and pediatric asthma.

In addition, the Youth Health Connection is designed to empower young people and their families by educating them and linking them to appropriate area resources. We are able to provide concerned parents with information about the local services that can best help their children.

Community Services

Services are provided through the collaboration of community leaders, parents, youth, educators, law enforcement officials, and health care providers.

• Community education forums

• Advisory Groups:  Parent Partners and Clergy Advisory Groups

• Conferences for local health care providers

• Meetings of Law Enforcement personnel

• Suicide-prevention training

• Resource Sharing

Get Involved

The Youth Health Connection targets the communities of the South Shore and beyond. Community representatives are invited to become members of the YHC, as well as to benefit from our services. To learn more, please contact Kim Noble R.N., B.S., M.B.A., at (781) 794-7415 or kimberly_noble@sshosp.org.