New Phone Number for the Hookup
The Hookup number has changed to 61827. So what does this change mean? Current subscribers to the Hookup should be switched over to the new number automatically, but if you or the youth you work with aren't receiving messages anymore, please sign up again. In April 2009, the California Family Health Council (CFHC), the California Department of Public Health, STD Control Branch, and Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc., ( ISIS ) launched the Hookup, a statewide text messaging service. The service aims to provide youth with relevant and accurate sexual and reproductive health information and a convenient, confidential resource for accessing local clinics that offer free or low-cost sexual and reproductive health services. The online home for the Hookup service is Teensource , CFHC's website for youth. Follow the link for UPDATED downloadable materials , and search the term “hookup." Questions? Please contact Rebecca Braun , Program Manager, CFHC. |
New - Youth Social Marketing Toolkit (YSMT)
In an effort to increase primary prevention to prevent STD transmission and unintended pregnancies, the California Family Health Council, Infertility Prevention Project and the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, have teamed up to create a web-based Youth Social Marketing Toolkit (YSMT). The toolkit is a step by step guide for community groups with limited financial resources to develop a social marketing campaign that reaches youth and young adults. The kit includes a case study as well as a media comparison guide that includes the cost, benefits, and challenges of various media types ranging from texting to blogs and online video posting.
New - What Works: Curriculum-Based Programs that Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Newly released in shorthand form from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, this brief provides an overview of what is known about evaluated interventions that help delay sex, improve contraceptive use, and or prevent teen pregnancy. The list of 30 effective programs also includes selected effects of the program along with contact information on how to obtain the program. Download a PDF copy of the What Works brief.
Building Emergency Contraception Awareness Among Adolescents
The Toolkit for Schools and Community-Based Organizations is designed to help increase knowledge of emergency contraception (EC) and provides suggestions for increasing EC awareness among adolescents and adults in schools and communities. The report, developed by the Academy for Educational Development, provides basic information about emergency contraceptive pills, makes the case that adolescents should know about EC, prepares adults to increase access and awareness among adolescents (as well as among their own peers), identifies resources for keeping current on the issues, and suggests evaluation strategies. The report discusses EC issues specific to schools, school-based health centers, and community-based organizations, and includes sample letters, articles, forms, protocols, and instruments that can be reproduced. Highlighted boxes containing facts, tips, resources, quotes, and stories from the field are included throughout the report.
Sexual Health: An Adolescent Provider Toolkit
The Adolescent Health Working Group has recently made available the fourth module to their Provider Toolkit series that focuses on sexual health. This 56- page module includes screening tools, counseling guidelines, and health education materials for teens and their adult care givers. Other modules on “Understanding Confidentiality and Minor Consent” (newly updated) and “Adolescent Health Care 101: The Basics” are also available to download.
Free Emergency Contraception Provider Kits and Technical Assistance
The California Family Health Council (CHFC) is offering a free comprehensive Emergency Contraception Kit that contains everything a provider needs to know about emergency contraception. The kit aims to make it easier, and more economical, for providers to expand EC services. CFHC staff are available to address your individual concerns, either in-person or over the phone. You may be eligible to receive free product samples.
The free Emergency Contraception Kit contains:
- Product order forms
- Medi-Cal/FamPACT reimbursement tools
- Answers to medical-legal questions
- Sample informed consents, English/Spanish
- Patient education materials, English/Sp
- The kit is packaged in a durable resource binder for handy access on your reference shelf.
For a kit and/or assistance, fax your contact information to: (510) 647-0634 or contact Lissa Suden at sudenl@cfhc.org or (510) 647-0632 ext. 202, if you have any questions about the project and how your agency might benefit.
Understanding Confidentiality and Minor Consent in California
Follow the link to access this toolkit on confidentiality and minor consent in California.
Patient/Provider Communication Tool
CSHC is currently partnering with the California Medical Association Foundation to address and educate both patients and clinicians about the connection between the HPV virus and cervical cancer with the ultimate aim of promoting strategies that can prevent both cervical cancer and HPV. Below is a link to an article titled, "Opening the Conversation" on talking to teens about HPV, cervical cancer and the HPV vaccine.
There is also a 2-page patient information sheet on HPV and cervical cancer made available by CDC titled, "Questions and Answers for Parents of Pre-teens About HPV and the HPV Vaccine." |
