Develop Partnerships
Develop
partnerhips with publicly funded health centers and with youth
serving organizations (YSOs) that serve vulnerable youth
Establish
a key partnership team with representatives from each health
center and YSO partner
Partner
with a national training and technical assistance provider
Collaborate
with health center partners in developing and implementing
approach to improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health
(SRH) services
Establish
quality improvement initiative to increase the likelihood that
sexually active youth will receive youth-friendly SRH services
including access to the full range of FDA approved methods of
birth control
Create
supportive organizational context
Train
staff and build competency
Implement
changes and make improvements
Institutionalize
changes
Collaborate
with YSO partners in developing and implementing approach to
linking sexually active youth to SRH services
Establish
organizational policy and referral process to link youth at the
YSO to partner health centers
Train
staff and build competency
Implement
and make improvements
Institutionalize
changes
Develop
and implement health communications and outreach efforts intended
to increase use of SRH service at health center partners
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Partnerships
Health
center and YSO partner leaders and staff are engaged and
committed to TPP initiative within their systems
Partner
leaders have dedicated staff time or other resources to the TPP
initiative
Linkage
and referral systems between YSOs and health center partners is
established and efforts to link youth to SRH are coordinated
across systems
Health
Center Partners
Health
centers make structural changes (e.g., financing, clinical
policies, protocols, practices, medication formulary, appointment
scheduling) that support improvements in SRH services
Staff
are knowledgeable about and supportive of implementation of
evidence-based guidelines for reproductive health services, youth
friendly best practices, and the provision of the most effective
types of contraception to sexually active teens
Providers
screen sexually active youth for pregnancy intention, counsel on
the full range of FDA approved methods of birth control, and
provide the method that youth select without delay
Services
are provided in a youth-friendly manner (based on report of teen
clients).
YSO
Partners
YSOs
implement organizational policies that support efforts to link
youth to SRH services
Staff
are supportive of efforts to link youth to SRH services
Staff
are knowledgeable about how to screen youth to determine need for
SRH services and provide referrals
Youth
service providers actively refer adolescent clients to SRH
services
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More youth visit health
center partners
More
youth receive SRH services
More
youth receive contraceptive methods
and
a larger percentage of those youth receive highly effective
contraception
More youth use
contraception
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Fewer
teen pregnancies and teen births among vulnerable youth
Better
long term educational and employment outcomes for youth and better
outcomes for their children
Sustained efforts
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