RHNTC Updates

• *NEW* Responding to Human Trafficking in the Title X Context Toolkit
• *NEW* Sustainability in Practice Team Meeting Series
• *NEW* Social Determinants of Health Meeting Package
• *NEW* Tools to Help Title X Agencies Engage Subrecipients
• *Updated* Establishing and Providing Effective Referrals for Clients Toolkit
• Communication Planning 101: How to Reach TPP Program Audiences Webinar
• Increasing Access to Title X Services through Telehealth: Lessons from the Field
• Preconception Health Services in Title X Settings Workshop

• Upcoming Clinician Café: Providing Inclusive Family Planning Care to Patients with Disabilities
• Upcoming Drop-In Active Learning Session: ASCCP Mobile App
• Fertility Awareness-Based Methods of Contraception eLearning Course

January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, raising awareness that human trafficking is a federal crime that affects communities throughout the United States and exploits individuals of all backgrounds, races, ages, and genders. Title X grantees must ensure that every staff member who serves or interacts with clients is able to: identify and report human trafficking, and take action and make appropriate referrals to improve a client’s safety and situation.

This new toolkit will guide your agency to develop a client-centered response to human trafficking cases and provides information, tools, and training for staff. Explore the toolkit.

Sustainability efforts beyond Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program grant funding can be challenging to execute and maintain but are critical to program success. This new meeting series offers TPP programs a structure for integrating sustainability planning into their program operations, based on the eight factors outlined in the OPA Framework for Program Sustainability. Each meeting package addresses one to two sustainability factors and includes foundational information and activities from the resource guide. 

The social and structural determinants of health play an important role in reproductive health, general health, and health disparities. This new meeting package is designed to support individual and team-based learning, reflection, and action on the social determinants of health in family planning care. Individuals can use this resource to gain understanding of social and structural determinants of health that family planning clients experience, while teams can use it to facilitate conversation and action to address social determinants of health within their family planning project or service site as part of holistic and culturally-responsive care. Explore the meeting package.

Two new job aids can help Title X family planning projects recruit and engage with subrecipient agencies to join their network:

• The Essential Elements: Drafting a Title X Subrecipient Agreement describes the essential elements of a Title X subrecipient agreement in accordance with Title X requirements and other applicable federal guidance. 
• The Communicating the Value of Joining the Title X Network job aid outlines the major benefits of the Title X Program, and can help family planning projects facilitate connections with potential subrecipient agencies (and their governing bodies).

This toolkit includes sample policies and strategies to support Title X grantees’ ability to provide high-quality, supportive, and effective referrals. The toolkit also contains resources that grantees can use to train subrecipients and service sites in their networks that provide referrals. The toolkit has been updated to comply with the 2021 Title X Regulations, including four revised policy templates and a new Nondirective Counseling and Referral Sample Policy Template. Explore the toolkit.

Join us on January 27, 2022 at 3pm ET to learn how to build and maintain an effective communication strategy for your TPP program to reach youth, caregivers, education professionals, or other community partners. During this webinar, participants will learn how to build a simple communication plan using the POST (People, Objectives, Strategy, Technology) method to define the who, what, why, and how of reaching TPP program participants and other audiences. Participants will learn how to develop a framework for their communication plan, including a strategy for maintaining the plan and measuring effectiveness. Register for the webinar.

Have you wondered how other Title X agencies are addressing challenges related to scaling up telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic? Join us on February 24 at 3pm ET for an interactive, discussion-based webinar that will recap lessons learned about providing telehealth services to meet clients’ sexual and reproductive health needs. Two Title X grantees and one subrecipient agency, as well as a former Title X grantee and representative from the Northeast Telehealth Resource Center, will share their experiences and lessons learned. Register for the webinar.

Join us on March 7 at 3pm ET for an interactive workshop on preconception health services in Title X settings. Preconception health services support the health of individuals of reproductive age before conception or between births (interconception) and benefit all individuals of reproductive age, regardless of whether they are planning a pregnancy. During this virtual workshop, speakers will facilitate a discussion on how preconception health services align with the Title X Program’s emphasis on access, equity, and quality family planning services. The workshop will include peer-to-peer discussion via breakout groups and digital whiteboards. 

Participants will also learn about RHNTC resources that are designed to help family planning providers review and strengthen the quality of their preconception health services, including the Preconception Health Toolkit. Register for the workshop.

Join the NCTCFP on January 24–28 for a Clinician Café reviewing how disabilities affect the way that patients access care and strategies clinicians can use in providing care to patients with disabilities. A Clinician Café is a virtual, multi-modal learning platform devoted to a topic in family planning and offers continuing education credits. Register for the café.

Join the NCTCFP on Tuesday, February 15 at 4:30pm ET for the third in a series of six drop-in active learning sessions. This session will focus on understanding and using the 2019 ASCCP risk-based management consensus guidelines to determine the appropriate management of cervical screening abnormalities. During this session, Sarah Diemert, WHNP, will lead a hands-on demonstration of the mobile app and will also discuss strategies for enhancing and implementing policies, procedures, and protocols for high-quality, equitable, and accessible client management. Register for the session.

This self-paced eLearning course for family planning providers presents the scientific evidence supporting fertility awareness-based methods (FABM). The course provides strategies for providing client-centered counseling when discussing these methods with people who want to plan or prevent pregnancy or who want to understand their bodies better. Participants can receive 1.25 continuing education credits. Register for the course.