Using an innovative partnership model, nursing faculty from a large urban university and administrators and health care providers from a juvenile justice facility develop programming to improve health literacy for detained adolescents. Graduate nursing students and faculty provide developmentally appropriate programming on topics such as sexual health, drug abuse/naloxone administration, mindfulness, and career opportunities in health care. Evaluation suggests an improvement of participants’ knowledge. This program was modified during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learning Objectives:

• Outline the processes to build a partnership between nursing faculty and students and juvenile justice administrators, health care providers, and residents to identify topics of interest
• Describe a program to increase health literacy and knowledge of high-risk topics in justice-involved adolescents
• Summarize continuous evaluation and dissemination methods of this health literacy programming

Level: Basic