TeenHealth Quarter. Wise. Making. Choices. free. The way you respond to choices can change your life or someone else s.

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1 TeeHealth Quarter Makig Wise Choices You make choices every day. The choice may be what to wear to school, how to eat healthy, whether to wear a seat belt or drik ad drive. ALL choices have cosequeces. The choices you make affect other people. Great choices ted to have great cosequeces. Poor choices ted to have poor cosequeces. There are the choices you make because by society s stadards they are right, or you thik someoe is lookig, or it s what the laws requires. It s those thigs you should do all the time, but sometimes choose ot to. A choice arises, ad you may thik o oe is watchig so what could it hurt? I kow smokig is ot healthy, but what would it hurt to have oe or two cigarettes? I kow I should drive straight home from school, but what would takig my fried home hurt? These are should I or should t I type choices. The way you respod to choices ca chage your life or someoe else s. The way you respod to choices ca chage your life or someoe else s. A future or eve a life ca be lost depedig o your decisio. Your choice will affect your family ad someoe else s family forever. You caot udo that choice. So always thik log ad hard before you make a choice that is followed by what would it hurt? Iside: Remember that your parets have rules, ad followig those rules will help keep you safe. If you ever fid yourself i a difficult situatio ad you are ucomfortable makig the choice, call your parets or a resposible adult to come get you. They may be upset at first but will be glad you made the resposible choice to stay safe. Good Habits = Healthy Tees To Be a Vegetaria Or Not to Be? It is importat to get your TENNderCARE welless checkup every year. Remember, if you are a Amerigroup member youger tha age 21, these checkups are free.

2 Foods Smile Eatig healthy food is importat for your oral health ad your overall health. You should try to eat foods that have lots of utriets like vegetables, fruits ad whole grais. Make sure you avoid foods with too much sugar like cady ad sweets. Eatig healthy foods will help you grow strog ad fit. Healthy for a Healthy While most people are omivores they eat meat ad vegetables some people do ot eat meat. This perso is a vegetaria. A vega is someoe who does ot eat aimal products of ay kid, icludig eggs ad milk. Beig a vegetaria ca be healthy for you ad may prevet cacer, high blood pressure ad other coditios. If you choose to be a vegetaria, you must still be sure you get the utriets your body eeds. Some utriets are easier to get if you eat meat, so as a vegetaria you must get those utriets from other foods. If you do ot eat eough healthy foods with the right utriets, you ca be at risk for gum disease ad other oral health problems. If you choose to be a vegetaria, you must still be sure you get the utriets your body eeds. For example, dairy products are a good source of calcium, which makes your teeth ad boes strog. If you do ot eat dairy products, you may ot get eough calcium. Istead, you must eat foods like broccoli ad dark, leafy grees to get eough calcium. Other utriets foud i meat ad dairy products are iro, vitami D, riboflavi ad vitami B12. It is importat to lear which o-meat or dairy foods have these utriets so you ca eat more of them. To take good care of your teeth, you should eat healthy foods. To be a vegetaria you must make sure the foods you eat still give you all the utriets your body ad your teeth eed.

3 Why should I get a TENNderCARE prevetive health screeig? Takig cotrol of your ow health is like keepig a promise to yourself. TENNderCARE screeigs are doe to check your overall health. Gettig regular screeigs is the first step i prevetig potetial health problems. TENNderCARE screeigs are FREE for Amerigroup members youger tha age 21. TENNderCARE checkups iclude: Health history Physical exam Lab tests (as eeded) Immuizatios Visio/hearig screeig Developmetal/behavioral screeig (as eeded) Advice o how to stay healthy Do you eed help with this iformatio? Is it because you have a health, metal health or learig problem, or a disability? Or do you eed help i aother laguage? If so, you have a right to get help, ad we ca help you. Call Amerigroup Commuity Care at for more iformatio. Do you have a metal illess ad eed help with this iformatio? The TeCare Advocacy Lie ca help you. Call them for free at (TTY ). If you have a hearig or speech problem, you ca call us o a TTY/TDD machie. Our TTY/TDD umber is Habla español y ecesita ayuda co esta carta? Llámeos gratis al Amerigroup is a culturally diverse compay. We welcome all eligible idividuals ito our health care programs, regardless of health status. If you have questios or cocers, please call (TTY ) ad ask for extesio Or visit If you eed a ride to your PCP s office to get your checkup, call If you are i Nashville, the umber is This is a free service to all members youger tha age 21. If you are youger tha the age of 18, you ca have a paret ride with you. Your paret would eed to call to schedule the ride. Need help i aother laguage? You ca call Amerigroup Commuity Care for laguage assistace at or the umbers below. Iterpretatio ad traslatio services are free to TeCare members. Foreig Laguage Lies Call if you eed help ad eed to speak with someoe i oe of these laguages: (Arabic) (Bosia) (Kurdish-Badiai) (Kurdish-Sorai) (Somali) (Spaish) (Vietamese) We do ot allow ufair treatmet i TeCare. No oe is treated i a differet way because of race, color, birthplace, religio, laguage, sex, age or disability. Do you thik you ve bee treated ufairly? Do you have more questios or eed more help? If you thik you ve bee treated ufairly, call the Family Assistace Service Ceter for free at I Nashville, call

4 Do you feel out of cotrol or hostile? Are you displayig ay self-harmig behaviors? What to do? Behavioral Health: Ager Self-Quiz for Maagemet Sometimes you may get agry ad do t kow why. Sometimes you ca just feel agry whe you wake up. Some of it may be those teeage hormoes you hear about, ad some of it may be because you are livig i a stressful situatio. You are sure to get agry sometimes everyoe does. What matters the most is how you hadle your ager ad yourself! Ager ca make you feel overwhelmed, powerless ad out of cotrol. The best tool you ca have to maage your ager is self-cotrol. Whe you pay attetio to your body, it will give you sigs you are gettig agry. You may feel warm, your heart may start poudig, ad your ski may feel tigly or tight. This is whe you eed to take a step back ad put self-cotrol i actio. You ca maage your ager by tuig ito your feeligs to figure out what is makig you agry. Thik about how you ca solve the problem. Choose the solutio that gives you the most beefit with the least damage. Eve with all these skills, sometimes problems are just too big to hadle aloe, ad you will eed to ask for help. Look at the followig questios. Do they soud like you? Do you get ito physical fights? Do you fid yourself arguig heatedly without fidig a solutio? Do you have a hard time gettig over past situatios? Are you i a bad mood more ofte tha a good oe? Do you feel like you wat to get back at somethig or someoe? Does your ager make you feel like hurtig someoe else or yourself? Ay of these thigs could be a sig that thigs are too big to hadle aloe ad you eed to ask for help from a paret, couselor, teacher or other trusted adult. Ager is a strog emotio. Learig to deal with strog emotios i the right way is part of becomig more mature. It takes some effort ad a lot of practice, but these skills will last a lifetime! To report fraud or abuse to the Office of Ispector Geeral (OIG), you ca call toll free or go olie to ad click o Report Fraud. To report provider fraud or patiet abuse to the Medicaid Fraud Cotrol Uit (MFCU), call toll free You have a right to file a complait about Amerigroup or your care. If your complait is about either physical health care ad/or behavioral health care, you ca call Amerigroup at or write to us at: Amerigroup Commuity Care 22 Cetury Blvd., Suite 310 Nashville, TN Tiee derecho a presetar ua queja acerca de Amerigroup o su ateció. Si su queja está relacioada co la ateció médica física y/o la ateció médica del comportamieto, puede llamar a Amerigroup al o escribiros a la siguiete direcció: Amerigroup Commuity Care 22 Cetury Blvd, Suite 310 Nashville, TN 37214

5 Good Habits = Healthy Tees All of your habits affect your health. May diseases ca be preveted by avoidig certai behaviors. So makig healthy choices will improve your chaces of livig a healthy life. Here are some good choices to make! Do t use ay tobacco. This is a extremely addictive habit that leads to may deadly diseases. So if you smoke, the sooer you quit the better! Avoid alcohol. It ca cause liver damage ad cacer, ad it cotributes to deaths from car wrecks ad other accidets. Eat healthy. Make healthy food choices by avoidig juk food. Eat fresh fruits ad vegetables istead. This will improve your health ad maitai a healthy weight. Do t subathe. Su exposure leads to ski cacer. Is family history importat? Absolutely! The health history of your immediate family, like your mom, dad, brothers ad sisters, is importat. Your family tree helps you lear about what makes you uique. Researchig immediate ad past family members ca help you lear about their health. You are a part of history also, ad this ca help give you iformatio about your ow health. If you do t kow your immediate family history, ask questios or talk to family at family gatherigs. Use this checklist to help keep up with your health history. My ext checkup is due Not sure whe it is due? Call your Primary Care Provider (PCP) ad ask. Not sure who your PCP is? To fid out, call your health pla at (TTY ). Be prepared for your checkup. Write dow questios for your PCP. Oe questio I have for my PCP is: OR Somethig my PCP eeds to kow about me is: _ Get your routie TENNderCARE checkup ad make sure you ask about your immuizatios. This is a great time to talk to your doctor about ay health cocers or questios you have. Child abuse ad eglect occurs whe whe a child is mistreated. This mistreatmet results i ijury or risk of harm. Abuse ca be: Physical Verbal Emotioal Sexual If you are sufferig from abuse, call You do ot eed to have proof that abuse has occurred. Each cocer will be reviewed o a idividual basis.

6 P.O. Box Virgiia Beach, VA Tee Health is published by Amerigroup to give iformatio. It is ot a way to give persoal medical advice. Get medical advice directly from your physicia All rights reserved. Prited i the USA. TeeHealth Member Services/24-hour Nurse HelpLie: TTY To Be a Vegetaria or Not to Be? Do you wat to become a vegetaria? If you do, thik about why you wat to go veggie. The Oxford Eglish Dictioary defies vegetaria as a perso who does ot eat meat or fish. Goig vegetaria is easy, but everyoe should thik about what they eat. People choose to be a vegetaria for differet reasos. Thik about what brought you to this decisio. Your parets will eed to support your decisio. Some parets may be hesitat to allow this. Some parets may be afraid of how it will affect your health ad utritio. It s your job to help them to uderstad your decisio to go veggie. This will help ease ay fears they may have about a vegetaria diet. Share the good reasos with your parets for followig a vegetaria diet: Vegetarias are more likely tha others to eat five portios of fruits ad vegetables each day. This diet is low i fat (especially saturated fat). It is high i complex carbohydrates. It is packed with a variety of fruits ad vegetables. It s a lifestyle choice that helps prevet obesity, coroary heart disease ad high blood pressure. Remember, excitig chages are comig! You have made a healthy choice for yourself. TEEN HPC To better iform your parets you ca: Do your research. Lear all you ca about vegetariaism. Be well-iformed. You will be helpig your parets ad yourself. Liste to their cocers. If they are hesitat about your choice, you might offer a trial period as a compromise. Write dow the foods your family already eats. You may be surprised at how much of the family s diet is already vegetaria. Cook a vegetaria meal that everyoe might ejoy.