| Calendar of Events |
2/11-12- Super Committee Meeting
2/14-21-National Condom Week
2/16- President's Day (state holiday)
2/18- Health Education Documents due for I&E
2/19- Front Desk/Billing Conference Call
2/26- CVR & Web Reports Webinar
3/3- I&E Meeting
3/19- MFPA Conference Call |
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~Robert Frost |
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| New TX Schedule of Discounts | | New TX Schedule of Discounts
Attached you will find the new Title X Schedule of Discounts based on the 2015 Federal Poverty Guidelines.
2015 POVERTY GUIDELINES | Persons in family/household | Poverty guideline |
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| For families/households with more than 8 persons, add $4,160 for each additional person. | | 1 | $11,770 | | 2 | 15,930 | | 3 | 20,090 | | 4 | 24,250 | | 5 | 28,410 | | 6 | 32,570 | | 7 | 36,730 | | 8 | 40,890 |
This schedule of discounts, sometimes referred to as the sliding fee scale, is effective 3/1/15.
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| Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month | |
More updates to come on events and activities through February! Here are just some of the activities we have planned this teenDVmonth:
Wear Orange 4 Love Day on February 10: Show your support for healthy relationships by wearing orange. Take a picture and send it to us - we'll post it on our Facebook page!
National Respect Announcement on February 13: Tell everyone you know this Valentine's Day that everyone deserves a safe and healthy relationship. Join our Thunderclap and spread the word!
Online Videos: We'll be featuring video content addressing issues such as campus response to dating abuse and sexual assault, engaging men and boys in violence prevention, and the impact of the media on dating relationships. Contributing organizations include staff from the Network for Victim Recovery of DC, Rape Victim Advocates, and more.
Tell us how you plan to make a difference by posting one activity on the Break the Cycle Facebook page or tweet your activity!
Get involved here! |
| 2013 Viral Hepatitis Action Plan | |  2013 Viral Hepatitis Action Plan |
| Chlamydia Screening HEDIS Measure | | Guide to Quality Improvement Using the Chlamydia Screening HEDIS Measure: Webinar Series
The National Chlamydia Coalition, in collaboration with the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), has developed a three-part webinar series designed to provide participants with a guide to improve the quality of care and services using the chlamydia screening HEDIS measure. The first session of the series, What's New with Chlamydia Screening?: Measure, Specifications and Performance, will be held on February 19th from 2:00-3:30 PM ET. The next two webinars, Quality Improvement: The Path to Improving Chlamydia Screening HEDIS Rates and Tools to Address Preserving Confidentiality, Providing Services to Adolescents and Talking with Parents, will be held on February 26th and March 4th, respectively. Experts will provide information on the specifics of the HEDIS measure and also share practical information to include resources and tools to address common barriers experienced using this measure. Each session will feature case studies presented by colleagues in the field. Registration is $149 per session. |
| Cervical Cancer Today | | |
 Cervical Cancer Today
A newly released survey, Cervical Cancer Today: A National Survey of Attitudes and Behaviors, suggests women and healthcare providers are hesitant to change cervical cancer screening practices. The survey, conducted jointly by the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH) and HealthyWomen (HW), explored the attitudes and decisions in the exam room of more than 2,000 women and 750 healthcare providers nationwide. Findings show that nearly 70% of women would be concerned about a five-year interval screening, with African-American and Hispanic women being even more concerned (82% and 74% respectively). Survey respondents also showed lower levels of understanding surrounding HPV, with less than half (48%) understanding that HPV infection can cause cervical cancer. Healthcare providers estimated this confusion to be even deeper, with only 26% saying they believe their patients are aware that HPV can cause cervical cancer.
Cervical Health Awareness month is coming to a close, but more needs to be done to get the word out about cervical cancer and HPV. Learn more here. |
| QFP Trainings | |  QFP Corner
The Quality Family Planning Recommendations (QFP) offer evidence-based guidance to determine clients' needs for a range of services. We are releasing eight free trainings to help you put the QFP into practice. Register now for the February trainings!
February 19, 2015
3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. ET
This webinar includes an overview of the clinical pathway and will help staff determine clients' specific needs.
February 26, 2015
3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. ET
This training provides strategies to help your clients think through their reproductive life plan and includes sample questions to ask during a visit and strategies to help clients create a reproductive life plan. |
| Parent-Based Adolescent Sexual Health Interventions | |  Parent-Based Adolescent Sexual Health Interventions and Effect on Communication Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses
By Diane Santa Maria, Christine Markham, Shirley Bluethmann and Patricia Dolan Mullen
CONTEXT: Parent-based adolescent sexual health interventions aim to reduce sexual risk behaviors by bolstering parental protective behaviors. Few studies of theory use, methods, applications, delivery and outcomes of parent-based interventions have been conducted.
METHODS: A systematic search of databases for the period 1998-2013 identified 28 published trials of U.S. parent-based interventions to examine theory use, setting, reach, delivery mode, dose and effects on parent-child communication. Established coding schemes were used to assess use of theory and describe methods employed to achieve behavioral change; intervention effects were explored in meta-analyses.
RESULTS: Most interventions were conducted with minority parents in group sessions or via self-paced activities; interventions averaged seven hours, and most used theory extensively. Meta-analyses found improvements in sexual health communication: Analysis of 11 controlled trials indicated a medium effect on increasing communication (Cohen's d, 0.5), and analysis of nine trials found a large effect on increasing parental comfort with communication (0.7); effects were positive regardless of delivery mode or intervention dose. Intervention participants were 68% more likely than controls to report increased communication and 75% more likely to report increased comfort.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings point to gaps in the range of programs examined in published trials-for example, interventions for parents of sexual minority youth, programs for custodial grandparents and faith-based services. Yet they provide support for the effectiveness of parent-based interventions in improving communication. Innovative delivery approaches could extend programs' reach, and further research on sexual health outcomes would facilitate the meta-analysis of intervention effectiveness in improving adolescent sexual health behaviors.
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