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Title X Family Planning Program Priorities

Each year the OPA establishes program priorities that represent overarching goals for the Title X program. Program priorities derive from Healthy People 2020 Objectives and from Department of Health and Human Services priorities. Project plans should be developed that address the 2012 Title X program priorities, and should provide evidence of the project’s capacity to address program priorities as they evolve in future years. The 2012 program priorities are as follows:

Fiscal Year 2012 Program Priorities

  1. Assuring the delivery of quality family planning and related preventive health services, where evidence exists that those services should lead to improvement in the overall health of individuals, with priority for services to individuals from low-income families;
  2. Expanding access to a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and related preventive health services that include natural family planning methods, infertility services, and services for adolescents, emphasizing the important role Title X plays in teen pregnancy prevention. The broad range of services does not include abortion as a method of family planning;
  3. Providing preventive health care services in accordance with nationally recognized standards of care. This includes, but is not limited to, breast and cervical cancer screening and prevention services; sexually transmitted disease (STD) and HIV prevention education, testing, and referral; and, other related preventive health services;
  4. Emphasizing the importance of counseling family planning clients on establishing a reproductive life plan, and providing preconception counseling as a part of family planning services, as appropriate;
  5. Addressing the comprehensive family planning and other health needs of individuals, families, and communities through outreach to hard-to-reach and/or vulnerable populations, and partnering with other community-based health and social service providers that provide needed services.
  6. Identifying specific strategies for addressing the provisions of health care reform (“The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”), and for adapting delivery of family planning and reproductive health services to a changing health care environment, and assisting clients with navigating the changing health care system. This includes, but is not limited to, enhancing the ability of Title X clinics to bill third party payers, private insurance, and Medicaid.

Fiscal Year 2011 Program Priorities

  1. Assuring the delivery of quality family planning and related preventive health services, where evidence exists that those services should lead to improvement in the overall health of individuals, with priority for services to individuals from low-income families;
  2. Expanding access to a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and related preventive health services that include natural family planning methods, infertility services, and services for adolescents, including adolescent abstinence counseling. The broad range of services does not include abortion as a method of family planning;
  3. Providing preventive health care services in accordance with nationally recognized standards of care. This includes, but is not limited to, breast and cervical cancer screening and prevention services; sexually transmitted disease (STD) and HIV prevention education, testing, and referral; and, other related preventive health services;
  4. Emphasizing the importance of counseling family planning clients on establishing a reproductive life plan, and providing preconception counseling as a part of family planning services, as appropriate;
  5. Addressing the comprehensive family planning and other health needs of individuals, families, and communities through outreach to hard-to-reach and/or vulnerable populations, and partnering with other community-based health and social service providers that provide needed services.
  6. Identifying specific strategies for addressing the provisions of health care reform (“The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”), and for adapting delivery of family planning and reproductive health services to a changing health care environment, and assisting clients with navigating the changing health care system.