Whereas 2024 marks the third annual nationally recognized Adolescent Immunization Action Week ; Whereas adolescents and young adults are vital to the United States future success and quality of life; Whereas all adolescents and young adults deserve to be protected against vaccine-preventable illness; Whereas adolescents and young adults are a particularly vulnerable subset of the United States population with respect to preventive health services; Whereas through clinical trials and evaluation measures vaccines are proven to be a safe and effective preventive health tool to protect adolescents and young adults, and their communities, from serious illness; Whereas immunization rates is one of the standards that is measured in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2030, a multiobjective plan to improve the Nation’s health over the next decade; Whereas adolescents and young adults are below Healthy People goals for recommended immunizations and have been slow to get up-to-date since the COVID–19 pandemic; Whereas protecting adolescents and young adults from vaccine-preventable illness is a community responsibility held by parents, caregivers, and health care providers to ensure the quality of life of individuals and the community; Whereas there is a need to address and heal mistrust in vaccines in rural and underserved communities throughout the United States; Whereas parents rate getting all recommended vaccines, getting a yearly flu shot, and getting the 2023–24 COVID–19 vaccine as lowest in importance (70 percent, 57 percent, and 46 percent respectively) compared to many other preventive health behaviors for their teen; Whereas 60 percent of teens residing in rural communities do not intend to get the COVID–19 vaccine; Whereas racial and ethnic vaccine coverage disparities persist in communities throughout the United States; Whereas compared to privately insured adolescents, adolescents with Medicaid or who are uninsured have significantly lower vaccine coverage