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HPV Vaccine Now Available for Boys
On October 16, the FDA approved the use of Gardasil for boys as well as girls in the prevention of the HPV virus. Gardasil protects against 4 types of HPV that cause cervical cancer in women as well as 2 types of HPV that cause genital warts in men and women. Because HPV is sexually transmitted, providing this vaccine to young people before they become sexually active will help prevent the problems that come with genital warts as well as cancer of the cervix. Read the FDA's news release on the new recommendations for HPV.
Help your Clients Understand
It is important for organizations and individuals worldwide to promote understandable health information. Check out the resources on www.healthliteracymonth.org.
Are you interested in staff-training in the area of Health Literacy? Call CFHC at 1-800-428-5438 and ask to be connected for Veronica Estrella Murillo at extension 3213 or Donna Bell Sanders at extension 7020. Link to http://www.healthed.org/Consulting/Training.htm
Check out the online module entitled Helping Your Clients Understand: Improving Health Communication in your Family PACT practice on Family PACT’s website. It’s a great resource for family planning settings.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
CFHC has many sensitively-written and appealing materials to help clients of all ages, available on healthed.org:
• You’re Pregnant: Keeping Safe from Abuse:
This full-color pamphlet was written especially for pregnant women. Positive and up-lifting, this pamphlet is sure to be an encouragement to your female clients.
This full-color booklet was written especially for teens. Full of interactive, thought provoking exercises, this booklet is an ideal addition to classroom discussion on this important topic. Available in English and Spanish.
• No One Deserves to Be Abused.
Told from the point of view of women who have faced abuse in their lives, this classic booklet builds on a woman’s strengths to inspire her to make the changes she needs to make to keep safe. Available in 5 languages.
October is Talk with your Kids Month
Teens speak a different kind of language. Overhearing a conversation among teenagers, sometimes it is difficult to know what they are saying to each other. As kids grow into adulthood, they begin exploring their world and relying more on their friends than their parents for information. How does a concerned parent bridge the language barrier to ensure that her teen is making educated decisions, especially about sex?
Continue reading "October is Talk with your Kids Month"
TeenSource and the "Hookup" Get Info Out to Teens
This year, CFHC, the CA STD Control Branch, and ISIS launched an text messaging service called "The Hookup," aimed at connecting teens in California to information about reproductive health issues. All you have to do is text "hookup" to 365247and sign up to get weekly sex, health, and life tips from TeenSource.org.
Last night, Margie Fites Seigle and Maryjane Puffer were featured on ABC7 in a report on TeenSource and the "Hookup" program. You can watch the video below.
Reaching out for Success: Family PACT Provider Guide to Effective Outreach
- Promoting services through printed materials
- Working with the media
- Using the internet
- Forming partnerships and referral networks
The guide also reviews key steps to making your clinic more accessible and client friendly, so that the clinic is more appealing to potential new clients and so that current clients are more likely to return. There’s also a special section on reaching out to youth.
Family planning providers and health educators nationwide will surely find this guide useful. Click here to download the guide from the Family PACT website.
Teen and Male-Friendly Clinic Checklist
Effective outreach includes making your organization friendly and welcoming to all populations. If you want to make sure that your clinic is welcoming to teens and males, check out the Family PACT program's free Teen and Male-Friendly Clinic Checklist. The tool covers 14 key areas that can help you determine how well you are reaching out to these populations.
Click here to download this free resource from the Family PACT website.
Sexual Health Curriculum for Older Adults
The Center for Family Life Education (CFLE), a program out of Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey, has developed a collection of 30 sex education lessons for adults.
The book, Older, Wiser, Sexually Smarter, provides educators with easy-to-do activities and lessons to help their older clients explore sex and sexuality in a fun, gentle and sex-positive way. The book explores the physical, emotional, societal, and spiritual aspects of sexuality throughout the lifespan.
The authors are acclaimed sexuality educators Peggy Brick, Jan Lunquist, Allyson Sandak, and Bill Taverner.
To order this book, visit Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey.
Rising suicide rate among Latina teens
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools is sponsoring a free webinar May 21, 2009, to help shed light on the rising trend of suicides among Latina teens.
Supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this webinar will examine the high rate of suicide attempts by adolescent Latinas in the United States. Click here to read more about this training opportunity and to register.
Text Messaging Service for Youth
Young adults can now get sexual health information sent straight to their phones! The California Family Health Council, the California Department of Public Health STD Control Branch, and Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc., (ISIS), have developed Hookup, a statewide text messaging service for youth. By sending the word “hookup” as a text message to 365247, youth can get hooked up with weekly sexual health tips. They can also enter the word “CLINIC” and their zip code to get local clinic referrals for youth-friendly STD testing and reproductive health services.
Make sure to let the youth in your community know about this great service. To learn more about how you can help market Hookup, visit the STD Control Branch.
