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New Online Social Marketing Toolkit for Youth Providers!
Interested in creating a social marketing campaign? The Youth Social Marketing Toolkit is an online step-by-step guide to developing low-budget prevention campaigns for youth and young adults on sexual and reproductive health. Complete with planning materials, campaign samples, and resource links, this toolkit will assist with the creation of social marketing campaigns.
Time to Talk about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has launched Time to Talk to encourage clients and their health care providers to talk openly about all of their health practices, including the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). CAM includes the use of herbal supplements, meditation, chiropractic care, yoga, and acupuncture. Many AIDS patients use CAM but don't always tell their health care providers.
As health care providers, it's important to ask your clients about CAM use. You can order or download a FREE toolkit that includes posters, tipsheets, wallet cards and other resource information to help encourage discussion of CAM use. To order a free toolkit, call the NCCAM clearinghouse at 1-888-644-6226 or visit NCCAM's website for information on Time to Talk.
World AIDS Day
Join people world-wide who are working together on World AIDS Day, December 1st, to increase awareness and focus attention on the global AIDS epidemic. Over a million Americans are estimated to be living with HIV. Worldwide an estimated 33 million people are living with HIV.
Find out what is going on in your area by logging onto AIDS.gov and finding out more.
Increasing Access to Contraception for Clients with HIV: A Toolkit
Demand for birth control among clients with HIV — especially those on ARV therapy — has increased worldwide, and new options for improving access to birth control are being considered.
This toolkit from Family Health International is a response to the demand for in-depth training and performance support materials by trainers, providers, and program managers who want to provide family planning services for their clients with HIV. It is available at no cost online or as a CD.
Check out its many resources in time for World AIDS day, December 1st!
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.
