Family Planning Initiative
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Healthy Teens Initiative
Goal:
To help NYC adolescents obtain comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, including contraception.
Activities:
Customized training and technical assistance to community- based and school-based health centers in all areas identified in the Healthy Teens Initiative “Seven Steps to Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Care to New York City Adolescents,” with emphasis on:
- Protecting teens’ confidentiality and consent rights
- Training frontline staff
- Reducing financial barriers
- Dispensing contraceptives and assisting with the purchase of contraceptives
- Monitoring and evaluation
Implementation:
Community providers:
- Up to 25 community-based clinics per borough sign on to become HTI partners each year (to happen progressively across boroughs over the next years: Bronx in 2008, Brooklyn in 2009, Manhattan and select sites in Queens and Staten Island in 2010)
- DOHMH conducts practice assessments and trains frontline staff
School-based services:
- School Based Heath Centers—training and technical assistance
- School-linked care—sexually active students are linked to community providers
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Emergency Contraception Education and Outreach
We work with community-based health providers to increase access to emergency contraception (EC) by:
- Training health care providers.
- Providing EC or EC prescriptions in advance of need.
- Integrating EC information in established systems where women are already receiving information about their health and well-being.
- Public education and mass media campaigns with messages and outlets that are tailored to specific segments of the population.
