• 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.

District Health Department #10 Provides the Following Comprehensive Reproductive Health Services:

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

• Abstinence counseling
• 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, foam, and diaphragm
• Counseling on natural family planning
• Referral for IUD, cervical cap, and surgical sterilization
• Abortion is not a birth control method and is not provided through the family planning program

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

• Pregnancy testing
• Counseling
• Referral

• 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 cancer is diagnosed.

• 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

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