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Innovations in Family Planning Clinical Service Delivery for Hard to Reach School-Based Populations

With funding from the Office of Population Affairs, SBHA supports Child Trends in the Innovations in Family Planning Clinical Service Delivery for Hard to Reach School-Based Populations project. SBHA works with Child Trends to identify, evaluate, and disseminate successful strategies that are used to provide family planning services to underserved adolescents in school-based settings. Examples include establishing partnerships to provide or expand family planning services, using telehealth or mobile clinic services, using strong referral systems when contraceptives are not provided on-site, conducting outreach to increase SBHC awareness and access, and incorporating culturally relevant and youth-friendly approaches.

SBHA is engaged in:

  • conducting a scan of innovative SBHCs through provider interviews
  • supporting process evaluations of a selection of SBHCs to understand facilitators and barriers in developing and sustaining innovative practices
  • developing practitioner-friendly toolkits on innovative strategies that reach a large audience

This work will increase family planning providers’ knowledge of ways to work collaboratively with schools to better reach underserved adolescents and young adults.