Family Planning

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What is Family Planning?

• A federal program (Title X) established in 1970 to ensure access to family planning and reproductive health services to low income, uninsured women, men, and teens. For more information visit US Dept. of Health & Human Services Family Planning.
• Family planning helps women, men, and teens delay, space, and choose the timing of their future pregnancies.
• Family planning promotes the well being of families by giving couples the opportunity to time pregnancies when they are best able to care for them.
• Promotes healthy babies by reducing infant deaths and other health related problems.
• Maintains women’s health by detecting health problems through routine screening and examination.
• Provides confidential contraceptive clinic services.
• Services available on an income based, sliding fee scale. Services will not be denied on an inability to pay.
• Services are available without regard to religion, race, color, national origin, English proficiency, sexual orientation, handicapping condition, age, sex, marital status, or the number of pregnancies.

Voluntary family planning is an important public health measure impacting such social issues as poverty and child health. The legal, political, and logistical availability of contraceptive services has an influence on the health of the individual, their relationships, the family, and the community. DHD #10 is committed to providing cost-effective, confidential, and accessible services that will assist the individual to prevent unplanned pregnancy.

District Health Department #10 provides the following Comprehensive Reproductive Health Services:

• Clinical Services
• Birth Control
• Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections (limited)

Screenings Available

• Sexually transmitted infections (limited)
• HIV counseling and testing
• Cervical cancer
• Blood pressure

Contraception

• Abstinence counseling.
• A full range of contraceptive methods are available.
• Birth control pills (various oral contraception options).
• Depo Provera (injectable contraceptive).
• Other hormonal options including: Ortho Evra (the patch) and NuvaRing.
• Barrier methods including condoms, film, foam, and diaphragm.
• IUD’s and IUC’s.
• Counseling on natural family planning.
• Referral for cervical caps.
• Information on sterilization.
• Abortion is not a birth control method and is not provided through the family planning program

Client & Community Education

• Preventative health behaviors
• Reproductive health
• Sexually transmitted infections
• Health maintenance issues and availability of services
• Pre-conceptional counseling

Pregnancy Detection

• Pregnancy testing
• Counseling
• Referral

Follow-up and Referral for Problems

• Follow-up is made for all clients identified with social, financial, and medical problems.
• For clients with abnormal cervical test results, referral into the BCCCP (Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program) for follow-up services and access to the Medicaid Treatment Act if cervical cancer is diagnosed.

Important Reminders

• Family planning services are offered mornings, afternoons, and early evenings. Please call your local office for available appointment times.
• Services are available to men and women of all ages. Parental consent is not required.
• Services are available on a sliding fee scale.
• Medicaid and Plan First! are both accepted and other insurances are billed.
• Services are confidential.
• Clinics are staffed by certified female nurse practitioners.

If you are a Family Planning client and you are experiencing any of the following symptoms, contact your physician or go to the emergency room right away:

• Arm, leg, chest, or stomach pains
• Blurred vision
• Numbness
• Dizziness
• Shortness of breath
• Bad headaches

Fees

Services available on an income based, sliding fee scale. Services will not be denied on an inability to pay. Services are available without regard to religion, race, color, national origin, English proficiency, sexual orientation, handicapping condition, age, sex, marital status, or the number of pregnancies.

For an appointment call: