Reproductive Health National Training Center (RHNTC)

We're excited to share a new and improved Birth Control Methods Chart with you! ✨ This new chart is framed around client autonomy and prompts providers to focus on their clients’ contraceptive preferences as a starting point in counseling conversations. This framework offers providers multiple ways to center a client’s specific preferences and is aligned with the forthcoming QFP 2.0. In the chart, methods are organized by whether clients can start and stop on their own and by those that require provider involvement (prescription or procedure). Within each category, the methods are listed in order of effectiveness (i.e., pregnancy risk), as we know clients also value effective methods. Download the chart here: https://lnkd.in/gGRct47n Read more in our email announcement: https://lnkd.in/ghQg4gs2 #BirthControl #ContraceptiveCounseling

Our Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program is a national grant program that invests in community-driven strategies to support communities throughout the nation. The grant program is dedicated to scaling evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention strategies and uses six key elements to do so–multiple settings, partnerships and services, caregiver engagement, safe and supportive environments, evidence-based programs, and youth engagement. Learn more about both these key components and our current grant TPP recipients on our website.  https://lnkd.in/e7fWimZd

Save the date! On Nov. 18, we will host a listening session titled "Addressing Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States - Progress, Challenges, and Future Strategies." This event will take place from 2:00-3:30pm EST and will highlight the most recent progress toward achieving the goals of the Sexually Transmitted Infections National Strategic Plan 2021-2025 (STI Plan).    We hope you will join us. Register here: https://lnkd.in/g2J_Eq-F 

This video from the Reproductive Health National Training Center (RHNTC) shares examples of ways Austin Healthy Adolescent centers youth. Watch to get ideas about how to create a safe space for youth and involve them in project decision-making and implementation: https://lnkd.in/gpQbeJm4 As always super impressed by Holly Bahamonde and JJ Sanchez on their knowledge on our youth! #youthvoice #AHA

Have you heard? The RHNTC website is now available in Spanish! 🖥️ We offer over 40 resources in Spanish, including 14 eLearning modules. To make it easier to find, share, and use Spanish resources and other website content, you can now toggle between English and Spanish on the RHNTC website whenever you see the Español button in the top right of your screen. You can browse resources, read Grantee Spotlights, complete training registrations and evaluations, and create Training Lists with Spanish resources. Learn more on our website: https://lnkd.in/dp8XdGHq Share this announcement in Spanish with your staff: https://lnkd.in/d6KHqt5j

The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) now examines program components! The review identified two components that show promise: sexual health risk reduction counseling implemented with an evidence-based TPP program, and in-person intervention delivery of a clinic-based intervention. Explore the list of evidence-based program components to make sure your program still meets your needs. https://bit.ly/4cSOWNH

The Title X family planning program is a vital part of America’s public health safety net, serving as a point-of-entry into care for nearly 195 million over the program’s history. The Title X program: – Is the only domestic federal program dedicated to family planning and related preventive health services. – Provides grants to a network of public and private nonprofit health and community-based clinics. – Delivers services that are confidential, patient-centered, and provided regardless of ability to pay. Watch the new Title X video to learn more about the Title X program’s history. https://lnkd.in/eaFwFQQB

📣 Calling all Title X-funded agencies! The RHNTC will award up to 10 mini-grants of $25,000 each to support Title X-funded agencies (grantees, subrecipients, or service sites) to implement one High Impact Practice Set (HIPS) to address leading causes of maternal mortality and racial disparities in maternal health. The RHNTC’s High Impact Practice Sets (HIPS) for Outpatient Settings Series includes HIPS and accompanying measurement tools to: strengthen hypertension services, address cardiac conditions, care for people with substance use disorder, respond to mental health conditions, and enhance postpartum services. ➡ Applications are due by 11:59 PM ET on Wednesday, November 13, 2024.  Visit our website to learn more about the application requirements and evaluation criteria: https://lnkd.in/gaCQfR2f

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The HITEQ Center invites sexual and reproductive health care providers to join an upcoming webinar on November 19 on using commonplace EHR technology to increase STI and HIV testing, and reduce maternal and congenital #syphilis. Dr. Irene Stafford, OBGYN from the University of Texas Houston Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center, will describe recent research demonstrating a decrease in transmission of congenital syphilis by implementing routine EHR strategies for best practice alerts. Her work demonstrates how the EHR can serve as an educational tool for providers, how information technology can inform practice patterns and improve health outcomes, and describes how best practice alerts can assist in reportable disease management. Register today: https://lnkd.in/ggTpyrhF