| Calendar of Events |
6/17- I&E Committee Webinar
6/23-27- Federal Program Review (Billings)
6/30- End of State Fiscal Year
7/15- Health Education Reports Due
7/22- Health Education Conference Call |
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Quote of the Week
If you want to live a great life, stop asking everyone else for permission. Stop seeking to live up to other people's expectations, and listen to your head, your feelings, and your heart. Be willing to take risks and to try what interests you. Don't give up too early - and don't assume you'll fail. Give yourself permission to always be yourself, to be genuine with others, and to carve out your own path.
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| June 9-15 is National Men's Health Weekl | |  Men's Health Week is celebrated each year during the week leading up to and including Father's Day. The goal of Men's Health Week is to raise awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. |
| Adolescent Confidentiality Requirements | | |
OPA Program Policy Notice Clarifying Adolescent Confidentiality Requirements Released
The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) released clarification to the recently released 2014 program requirements for the Title X family planning program.
In response to concerns from the field, OPA issued an OPA Program Policy Notice clarifying that the long-standing protection of adolescent confidentiality remains in effect. The program notice specifically states that adolescents must be assured confidentiality, and includes language from the 2001 program guidelines. NFPRHA has worked with Abigail English, the director of the Center for Adolescent Health & the Law and the nationally recognized expert on adolescent confidentiality, to produce a memo detailing the legal history and requirements in statute, regulation, and case law to protect confidentiality for adolescents who receive Title X-funded services. This memo, which is meant to serve as a complement to today's OPA Program Policy Notice, can be found here. |
| Do Monogomous Women Still Need a Pap Smear? | | |
Ask Well: Do Monogamous Women Still Need a Pap Smear? - NYTimes.com
By TARA PARKER-POPE
Most cases of cervical cancer are linked with the sexually transmitted HPV virus. So why are monogamous women who test negative for HPV still given pap smears? |
| 2014 CME Opportunities | |  Women's Health Professionals Comprehensive Colposcopy Training July 16-19, 2014 Denver, CO This evidenced-based course is designed for the beginning/intermediate colposcopist. It will also benefit clinicians needing more information on: the 2012 screening guidelines, the updated management guidelines, new concepts about HPV screening, and triage, treatment methods, and HPV epidemiology. Save the Dates- additional 2014 courses: Comprehensive Colposcopy October 15-18, 2014 Baltimore, MD Advanced Colposcopy November 21-23, 2014 Atlanta, GA |
| Job Opportunity | | |
Section Supervisor for the STD/HIV Program
The STD/HIV section is recruiting for the position of section supervisor. This section is one of five in the Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Bureau of the Public Health and Human Services Division in Helena. The STD/HIV section has a staff of five very dedicated individuals. The section works closely with other sections in the bureau as well as other bureaus within the division. The section works with a variety of local medical and educational partners to prevent sexually transmitted infections.
If you are interested in supervising a fantastic team of individuals, able to work well with others and can demonstrate respect and empathy for a variety of vulnerable populations, consider joining the team. Or if you know someone that fits the criteria, pass the information along!
Check out the job announcement for this exciting position below.
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| OPA-CDC Title X Program Guidelines Presentation | |  Watch New OPA-CDC Title X Program Guidelines Presentation |
| Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Prevalence Monitoring Toolkit | | Webinar:
Using Local Data to Guide Programmatic
Decision-Making: Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Prevalence Monitoring Toolkit
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
11:00 - 12:30pm PT
1:00 - 2:30pm CT 2:00 - 3:30pm ET
About this webinar
This webinar will introduce the Chlamydia and Gonorrhea (CT/GC) Prevalence Monitoring Toolkit, a resource designed to support administrators and managers of state and local STD and family planning (FP) programs to monitor and evaluate CT/GC screening efforts. The toolkit introduces key indicators for assessing screening efforts, explains how these indicators may be calculated and used, and provides examples of each indicator. The toolkit also includes interactive worksheets to generate annotated charts and data reports.
Click here for more information about this event. |
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