Northeast Ohio Family Health Program
Dr. Willie Oglesby, WC and EM Treuhaft Chair for Health Planning at The Center for Community Solutions and Denise Walsh, Clinical Services Manager of the Title X Program attended a Senate briefing and National press club briefing in Washington D.C. in June.
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To review the overview of our Title X Program that was shared at the briefing highlighting the breadth of CCS’s work, please click here.
PATTHS for Dads, sponsored by The Healthy Fathering Collaborative, is a program intended to build capacity in the community for fathers to feel confident in providing guidance to youth on comprehensive sexuality education. This report details results of pre- and post-surveys administered to 1,003 participants at 80 PATTHS workshops offered between November 2009 and August 2010.
Community Solutions' Northeast Ohio Family Health Program is the administrator of Title X family planning services in Northeast Ohio. The Title X Family Planning program was enacted in 1970 as Title X of the Public Health Service Act. Title X is the only federal grant program dedicated solely to providing individuals with comprehensive family planning and related preventive health services. The Title X program is designed to provide access to contraceptive services, supplies and information to all who want and need them. By law, priority is given to persons from low-income families.
The Title X Family Planning program is administered within the Office of Public Health and Science, Office of Population Affairs (OPA) by the Office of Family Planning (OFP). In fiscal year 2010, Congress appropriated approximately $317,491 million for family planning activities supported under Title X. At least 90 percent of the appropriation is used for clinical family planning.
In calendar year 2008, 88 Title X grantees provided family planning services to approximately five million women and men through a network of more than 4,500 community-based clinics that include State and local health departments, tribal organizations, hospitals, university health centers, independent clinics, community health centers, faith-based organizations, and other public and private nonprofit agencies. In approximately 75 percent of U.S. counties, there is at least one clinic that receives Title X funds and provides services as required under the Title X statute.
Comprehensive family planning does much more than just dispense contraceptives. It gives individuals the education they need to be sexually responsible. It encourages people to seek loving, stable relationships and counsels young people to delay having sex. It also encourages everyone to use contraception until they are ready and willing to be responsible parents.
The Northeast Ohio Family Health Program promotes these comprehensive family planning services (contraception, education, health screening, and family planning counseling) as exemplified by the federally funded Title X program, a proven model for preventing the personal and social costs of unwanted pregnancies and the need for abortion.
By supporting such services through health care providers at multiple sites around the region, the Northeast Ohio Family Health Program helps people stay healthy, act responsibly, and plan their families successfully.
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Testimonials
"Thank you for facilitating the funding of the PATTHS training that our organization has participated in during the last several years. We have trained countless fathers on the importance of beginning a healthy and productive dialogue with their children regarding sexuality."
Rev. Dr. Brian A. Moore, President and CEO
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