Keep Up the Pressure to Make it Right
It is more critical now than ever to bring to light all the ways in which Title X funding cuts are reverberating across the family planning safety net. To support NFPRHA’s Make it Right campaign, please share how your organizations and patients are impacted by funding shortages, whether directly with NFPRHA, the media, or on your social media channels. Below are a few suggested ways to get involved:
If you have any questions or need assistance with media outreach, please contact Audrey Sandusky, Senior Director of Policy & Communications, at asandusky@nfprha.org. If you have trouble accessing any of the resources in this email, please contact Naomi Petersen, npetersen@nfprha.org, for assistance.
Now Available: Recording of NFPRHA’s Abortion Messaging Training
If you were not able to attend or would like to revisit last week’s abortion messaging training facilitated by the COMS Project, a recording is now available here. This webinar covered the importance of using values-based messaging, best practices for talking about abortion care, and how to answer tough questions. The slides guiding the facilitators’ training are accessible here (PPT). Also available by the COMS Project is a resource guide (Word) on the dos and don’ts for talking about abortion. Please do not circulate these materials beyond your health agency staff. If you have questions or are interested in one-on-one guidance, please contact Audrey Sandusky, Senior Director, Policy & Communications, at asandusky@nfprha.org.
Resource Guides for Clinicians
NFPRHA’s Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) team recently released two resource guides to support the provision of high-quality family planning and sexual health services:
Assessing Patient Experience of Care: A Resource Guide for Family Planning and Sexual Health Care Providers: This resource guide (PDF) and its accompanying appendices (PDF) are intended to serve as a roadmap for family planning providers wanting to assess and improve patient experience of care, whether delivered in-person or using telehealth. While large health care systems often hire vendors to develop and/or administer patient experience surveys, many organizations conduct their own in-house surveys to minimize costs. This guide is intended to support the latter. The sample surveys in the appendices include validated survey items that have been used successfully in other health care settings. The appendices can also be accessed in individual PDFs and editable versions here.
Resource Guide: Mailing Prescription Medications to Patients: Prepared by NFPRHA in consultation with Birth Control Pharmacist, this resource (PDF) outlines considerations for health centers that are exploring the feasibility and permissibility of mailing medications to patients.
These documents were made possible in part through the support of Bayer.
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May 25: Mobile Health Unit Peer-to-Peer Learning Session
To achieve health equity for all patients, providers must increase access to equitable, affordable, client-centered, quality family planning and sexual health services. Mobile health units present an opportunity for NFPRHA members to bring needed health services directly to priority populations, especially in communities that face systemic barriers to care and in rural/frontier areas without easy access to brick-and-mortar health centers. These “clinics” take many forms, including buses, vans, RVs, and trailers that can travel to communities to provide clinical services and health education.
Although mobile health units present as a straightforward fix for overcoming common barriers to accessing health care, especially geography and time, there are many considerations that health care organizations must work through as part of the exploration, pre-implementation, and initial implementation processes. These considerations relate to funding, licensure, use of 340B drugs, staffing, outreach, safety, and data capture, among other topics.
Please join us Wednesday, May 25, at 2:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. PT, for this learning session, an opportunity for funders and providers of direct services to come together to discuss these many considerations and potential strategies to address them with peers. Advanced registration is required.
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