Includes Recommendations for Women, Men, and Adolescents

The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) has released the revised Title X Program Guidelines, which has two components. The first is entitled Recommendations for Providing Quality Family Planning (QFP) Services, 2014, and the second is the Title X Program Requirements. 

Developed in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the QFP has several important features that will improve quality of care and help families achieve their desired number and spacing of healthy children. The QFP integrates and fills gaps in existing clinical recommendations and is based on the best available evidence.

  

Addressing the needs of both female and male clients, the QFP defines what services should be offered in a family planning visit and encourages the use of the family planning visit to provide related preventive services such as breast and cervical cancer screening. Detailed information is provided about how to provide contraceptive services, with particular attention paid to the special needs of adolescent clients.

 

The Title X Program Requirements contain the statutory and regulatory language underpinning the Title X program. A "crosswalk" showing how the two documents intersect is in development.

Title X providers can learn more about the new Title X Program Guidelines on the NTC website under New Recommendations. This section includes job aids, training tools, and continuing education materials. We will continuously update the site with additional QFP and Title X resources.

 

Featured Resources

Key QFP and Title X Program Resources

• QFP One-page Overview
• Clinical Pathway for Family Planning Services for Women and Men of Reproductive Age
• Family Planning and Related Preventive Health Services Checklists for Women and Men
• Program Requirements for Title X Funded Family Planning Projects

 

National Launch Webinar

On May 8, OPA will host a webinar focused on the new recommendations. Register for this webinar at www.etouches.com/QFP-National.

Position Number(s): 69100708

Openings: 1

Location(s): Helena

Job Status: Full-Time Permanent

Shift: Daytime

Date Posted: 4/24/2014

Closing Date: 5/8/2014

Department: Public Health and Human Services

Division: Public Health and Safety

Bureau: Family and Community Health

Union: non

Band/Grade: 07

State Application Required: Yes

Salary: $29.45 - $36.81

http://svc.mt.gov/statejobsearch/listingdetails.aspx?id=12775

Special Information:

The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program is a supplemental nutrition program that helps families start out strong and stay that way. The Department of Public Health is searching for a Section Supervisor to lead the Department's WIC Program and the program's staff. If you are passionate about improving the health of others through nutrition and promoting healthy lifestyles, consider applying for this job. We are looking for employees committed to improving the health of Montana's people and communities.

Duties:

This position serves as a Section Supervisor and is responsible for:

Program Development

• Coordinates and conducts strategic planning to develop and establish plans that are aligned with the broader bureau and division goals and objectives.
• Establishes section goals, objectives and work plans to guide program and grand administration.
• Develops, writes and implements section and program policies, rules and regulations related to program/service delivery improvement including changes to administrative rules, and interpreting state and federal regulations.
• Evaluate the impact of programs on public health improvement/disease prevention efforts and determine areas for improvement.
• Ensure coordination with local and tribal health agencies, local health officials, and health professionals to meet program goals and objectives.
• Conduct research and analysis to evaluate information on successful program policies and procedures regarding program/service delivery improvement.
• Write grant applications to seek additional program funding through federal and other sources.

Program Operations

• Provide direction and oversight in the development, implementation and evaluation of program activities and interventions with public health.
• Oversee technical assistance and give direction to stakeholders in the development of systems and processes that will support public health service delivery at the local level.
• Administer section budget, policies, grants, contracts, information systems and related systems and activities to ensure efficient program operations, compliance with statutory responsibilities, related laws, and compliance with state, federal and national standards.
• Develop program budgets by reviewing allocations, recommendations from subordinates, project plans and objectives, and expenditures.
• Develops and Writes technical reports.

Staff Supervision

• Provides supervision to ensure decisions and actions are aligned with policies, laws, and best practices.
• Evaluates the performance of all positions directly supervised by completing performance evaluations, and providing corrective actions and discipline.
• This position supervises approximately ten FTE.  

Competencies:

Required for the first day of work:

• Knowledge of the principles and practice of public health program administration, research methodology and disease prevention and control.
• Knowledge of state and federal funding requirements, and grant, contract, and budget management.
• Knowledge of public health program planning, development and evaluation.
• Knowledge of personnel management.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to operate a personal computer and general office equipment as necessary to complete essential functions, including using spreadsheets, word processing, database, email, internet and other computer programs.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in health sciences, behavioral/social sciences or a closely related field.
• Five years of progressively responsible experience that includes program planning and administration.
• Other combinations of directly related education and experience may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
• Three years supervisory experience required, five years preferred.  
• Master's degree in public health or a related field is preferred.

Supplemental Questions:

Your answer to the supplement question must be specific regarding dates and employers.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is a high-profile program at both Federal and State levels. Montana receives guidance from Federal, regional and Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) program partners. Participation on national and regional committees is essential to fully understand the breadth of the WIC program. Developing and maintaining relationships with Federal and State partners, contractors, retailers, and participants is essential to this position. Please provide an example of how you developed and maintained relationships with partners or stakeholders. Using this example, describe how you used these relationships to improve your program goals and objectives. 

Sponsored by Advocates for Youth, National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month (NTPPM) is observed each May by states and communities throughout the country. NTPPM seeks to involve communities in promoting and supporting effective teen pregnancy prevention initiatives, with more momentum continuing each year. 

Advocates for Youth recently updated its National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month Planning Guidebook. The guidebook provides strategic tips and examples to help local communities plan and implement activities for NTPPM. It also includes fact sheets, guidance for involving youth and working with the media, and sample forms.

Taxpayer costs associated with teen childbearing in 2010 ranged from $1.2 billion in Texas to $15 million in Vermont, according to new state-level data released today by The National Campaign-for the nation overall, teen childbearing cost taxpayers at least $9.4 billion.

Most of the public sector costs of teen childbearing are associated with negative consequences often experienced by the children of teen mothers, during both their childhood and their adolescent years.  This includes costs associated with public health care (Medicaid and CHIP), increased participation in child welfare, and, among those children who have reached adolescence and young adulthood, lost tax revenue due to decreased earnings and spending.

All 50 states have also realized significant cost savings due to significant declines in teen childbearing. For example, the teen birth rate in California declined 57% between 1991 and 2010.  The progress California made in reducing teen childbearing saved taxpayers an estimated $1.8 billion in 2010 alone compared to the costs they would have incurred had the rates not fallen.

On behalf of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), we wanted to reach out to your organization to promote a free webinar on Military Sexual Trauma (MST) on Friday, May 9, 2014. During the webinar, representatives from VA will be discussing Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and how it applies to the claims filing process in regards to legal requirements, submitting evidence to VA, and the examination process.

We are hoping that your organization will help our nation's Veterans by getting information out about this webinar to your contacts. Our goal is to explain these processes to individuals and organizations who support those suffering from MST and who are involved in the VA claims filing process, including mental health organizations, congressional liaisons, community service boards, and Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs).

WASHINGTON -- The FDA has approved a molecular test for human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA as a first-line, stand-alone screen for cervical cancer.

The agency approved the cobas HPV test to screen women ≥25 for infection with 14 high-risk HPV strains, including HPV 16 and 18, which account for most cases of cervical cancer in the U.S. and worldwide.

The approval follows a unanimous recommendation from an FDA advisory committee that reviewed evidence on test results presented by FDA staff and by the test manufacturer, Roche Molecular Systems.

"Today's approval offers women and physicians a new option for cervical cancer screening," Alberto Gutierrez, PhD, of the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in a statement. "Roche Diagnostics conducted a well-designed study that provided the FDA with a reasonable assurance of the safety and effectiveness when used as a primary screening tool for cervical cancer."

The FDA initially approved the molecular test in 2011 for use in conjunction with or as a follow-up to a Pap test. The new approval gives healthcare professionals the option to use the HPV test alone or as a co-test with cervical cytology (Pap).

According to the FDA, women who test positive for HPV 16 or 18 should proceed directly to colposcopy. A positive test for one or more of the other 12 high-risk HPV strains should be followed by a Pap test to determine the need for colposcopy.

In support of the approval application, Roche submitted data from a study involving 47,000 women who were evaluated by both the HPV test and cervical cytology. The DNA test outperformed the Pap test on all key outcome parameters: sensitivity for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) scores ≥3, positive and negative predictive values, and false-positive rate.

Following a day-long hearing last month, the FDA's Medical Devices Advisory Committee Microbiology Panel agreed unanimously that results with the test provided positive answers to three key questions: Is the test safe? Is it effective? Do the benefits of the test as a stand-alone screen outweigh the risks?

Approximately 20% of women will develop a pelvic mass at some time in their lives. Pelvic masses present gynecologists with difficulties in both diagnosis and management. When a patient presents with a pelvic mass, the gynecologist needs to first determine if the mass is gynecologic in origin and then determine whether it is benign or malignant. This article aims to aid physicians in the workup of pelvic masses and triage of patients with pelvic masses to the appropriate surgeon for optimal care.

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