Resources

Administrators

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
an Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), strives to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.

Guttmacher Institute
The Guttmacher Institute advances sexual and reproductive health and rights through an interrelated program of research, policy analysis and public education designed to generate new ideas, encourage enlightened public debate and promote sound policy and program development.

Bedsider
Bedsider is a free online support network for birth control. Here visitors can find doctor, find a method, other tools.

Building Partnerships Toolkit
The Region VIII Family Planning Training Center developed the Building Partnerships tool kit in order to provide information, tools and resources for family planning grantees and clinics to use in their continued effort to improve services, increase awareness about family planning services in their communities, and reach individuals and populations that would benefit from family planning education and clinical services.

Centers for Disease Control’s Office of Women’s Health
The CDC’s Office of Women’s Health work to promote and protect the health, safety, and quality of life of women at every stage of life.

Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfill.

Clinical Training Center for Family Planning
The Clinical Training Center for Family Planning provides training for clinical family planning preceptors. Clinical family planning preceptors ensure that direct care providers in Title X settings apply the most current knowledge and skills necessary for effective delivery of high quality family planning services.

Delivery of Rapid HIV Test Results
The Region VIII Family Planning Training Center developed this tool for clinics to download, print and use as a reference when delivering HIV test results.

EngenderHealth
EndgenderHealth works to improve the lives of men, women and families through its work in family planning maternal health, HIV and AIDS, gender equity and many other programs.

Faststats
FastStats, a program of the CDC, provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.

Food and Nutrition Information Center (USDA)
Food and Nutrition Information Center provides credible, accurate, and practical resources for nutrition and health professionals, educators, government personnel and consumers.

Guttmacher Institute State Center
The Guttmacher Institute State Center provides state specific sexual and reproductive health information.

HealthTeamWorks
HealthTeam Works is a nonprofit, multi-stakeholder collaborative working to redesign the healthcare delivery system and promote integrated communities of care using evidence-based medicine and innovative systems.  Here you will guidelines and supplemental materials to assist you in the clinic.

Healthy People 2020
Healthy People 2020 is an initiative that provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.

Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health
Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health is a nonprofit organization working to improve health care for women through research, dialogue, and information dissemination.

Let’s Move
Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams.

LiveWell Colorado
LiveWell Colorado is a nonprofit organization committed to reducing obesity in Colorado by promoting healthy eating and active living. In addition to educating and inspiring people to make healthy choices, LiveWell Colorado focuses on policy, environmental and lifestyle changes that remove barriers and increase access to healthy behaviors.

MMWR Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines
This the CDC’s Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guideline for 2010

National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA)
NFPRHA serves its members by providing advocacy, education and training to those in the family planning and reproductive health care fields.

North Dakota Coding Tool
This tool was provided by the North Dakota Department of Health.  It is a list of commonly used CPT and ICD-9 codes in their Title X clinics.

Office of Population Affairs – Title X
This webpage provides an overview of The Title X Family Planning program.

Office of Population Affairs (OPA) Clearing House
The OPA Clearinghouse collects, develops, and distributes free publications on family planning (including information on contraception, abstinence, and sterilization) and reproductive health (including information on cervical cancer, Pap tests, and sexually transmitted infection and disease).

Office of Population of Affairs Webinar Archives
Here you will find recordings, presentations and transcripts of past OPA webinars.

Office on Women’s Health (OWH)
The Departmet of Health and Human Services, OWH works to improve the health of women in communities across the country and coordinates activities and programs in health care service delivery, research, and public and health professional education.

Promising Practices and Marketing Strategies for Male Services
The Region VIII Family Planning Training Center collected a variety of promising strategies, tools and curricula, and compiled them into an electronic binder: Promising Practices and Marketing Strategies for Male Services: A Compendium for Reproductive Health Providers. It includes brief descriptions of visual aids, posters, flyers and cards, leaflets and brochures, video and audio recordings, electronic modes of outreach, and other resources.

Other Training Centers:
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Region II

Region III

Region IV

Region V

Region VI

Region VII

Region IX

Region X

Stay Teen
Stay Teen is an interactive website for teens to encourage them to enjoy their teen years and avoid the responsibilities that come with pregnancy and parenting.

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy seeks to improve the lives and future prospects of children and families and, in particular, to help ensure that children are born into stable, two-parent families who are committed to and ready for the demanding task of raising the next generation.