132. Does the Minnesota Runaway Intervention Program for Sexually Victimized Adolescents Work as Theorized?

Runaway, sexually victimized adolescents require evidence-based interventions focused on reducing trauma symptoms, fostering healing, and promoting healthy development. The Minnesota Runaway Intervention Program (RIP), a nurse designed and health care focused intervention, aims to support sexually abused and exploited adolescents who have run away by reconnecting them to supportive relationships, resources, and environments. Theoretically informed by developmental traumatology, resilience theory, and positive youth development, this complex and individualized intervention proposes that enhancing participants ’ protective factors will to contribute to improvements in participants’ health and well-being.
Source: Journal of Adolescent Health - Category: Child Development Authors: Source Type: research