Guide to Turning 18
A guide to help you and your parents understand the changes to your health care.
The Center for Adolescent Health provides medical services for adolescents and young adults between the ages of 12-26 years. Our services are confidential and are provided by adolescent medicine specialists.
The Teen and Young Adult Clinic provides comprehensive primary care health services (e.g. checkups, acne, colds, including confidential reproductive health counseling and sexually transmitted infection testing) and consulting services to primary care physicians for issues such as menstrual disorders, delayed puberty, etc.
The Stanford Program for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology provides expert medical care in a caring and sensitive environment to children and adolescents with gynecologic needs.
The Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program provides medical, nutritional, and psychiatric treatment for adolescents with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS).
Providing medical services for gender nonconforming youths and their families in our Sunnyvale office, with expert providers from pediatric endocrinology, adolescent medicine, pediatric urology, and social services.
Packard Children’s Hospital’s Pediatric Weight Clinic helps overweight and obese children and teens improve their health and quality of life.
The Teen Van provides health services for uninsured and/or homeless youth by visiting various San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara county locations.
As an adult, decisions regarding your health care will occur differently than when you were younger, even though you still are being cared for at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. View our Guide to Turning 18, an excellent resource for young adults and parents, as they both navigate their new health care responsibilities.
Our pediatric and adolescent providers provide accessible and comprehensive HIV prevention services, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), to adolescents and young adults up to 26 years of age.
A guide to help you and your parents understand the changes to your health care.
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