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Center for Health Training has developed numerous materials and training resources of interest to our various audiences. All downloads are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF). Unless otherwise indicated, materials for sale are distributed by the Seattle branch of James Bowman Associates; they can be contacted at 206-223-0128 if you have any questions. Checks accompanying the order form should be made out to James Bowman Associates. In order to help keep costs of videos affordable, we are unable to offer previews.

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English to Spanish Glossary and Audio CD of Family Planning Related Terms—Revised 2007

This popular 48-page glossary is small enough to slip into a lab coat or pant pocket for easy reference throughout the day. Glossary includes: family planning terms, common questions and statements encountered in a family planning clinic visit, and medical abbreviations. The 20-minute audio CD helps the listener hear and practice the common family planning related questions and statements in the glossary.

Complete set must be purchased before ordering additional copies of the glossary.

Cost: $20 (Additional glossaries: $5)

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A Guidebook for Integrating Family Planning Services and Corrections—2005

Most of the 6.9 million people now in the U.S. correctional system will eventually re-enter the free world. These adults have a crucial need for health information. This manual is a systematic guide for providers as they work with the corrections system to supply family planning services for current and past offenders.

Users: Family Planning Service Providers

Download the PDF (1.72MB)

Client-centered Care Organizational Assessment: How well does your agency provide client-centered services?

This is a one-page self-assessment you can have your entire staff or your management team complete to begin a dialogue about how client-centered your services and systems really are.

Download the PDF (34KB)

Contraceptive Fact Sheets

The Contraceptive Fact Sheets were developed by the Center for Health Training (CHT) as a training tool for professionals to increase their knowledge about birth control options when working with their clients. These Facts Sheets can be used as handouts for patients and clients. However, these materials are not intended to offer full informed consent information for patients who are being given prescription birth control methods. (Updated 2010; Spanish versions updated 2009 and translated by Intercambios, Olmito, TX.) The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CHT.


Download a single Adobe Acrobat file with a complete set of fact sheets in English (PDF 666KB) or a versión en Español (large PDF: 22 MB). Or you may download individual fact sheets below; the Spanish fact sheets are larger files, mostly 1 to 2 MB in size:

Contraceptive Methods Overview Poster

This two page, 8½ x 11 inch poster graphically illustrates each method of contraception with a picture and a brief, positive statement. Methods are grouped by type (barrier, hormonal, etc.). The poster is intended to be used as a conversation starter between a client and a clinician or counselor.

Getting Ready for Male Services: An Assessment Toolkit

Despite significant improvements in recent years, the disparity between reproductive health services for women and for men is still quite striking. Experience has taught us that all services and all clients – meaning females as well as males – benefit from conducting an assessment of male-friendliness, followed by development of a concrete action plan for change, involving all staff.

This toolkit addresses:
  • Essential elements for male-friendly services
  • Creating an assessment team
  • Collecting and analyzing data
  • Tools! to assess ... environment, staff training needs and community partnerships
  • Tips for managing change

Please click on the link below to access the toolkit and the tools in PDF "forms" so that you can enter and save the data electronically.

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Health Literacy Project: Oral Contraceptive Patient Education Materials

In 2009, the Region VI Title X grantees requested Center for Health Training (CHT) to develop low literacy materials regarding proper use of OCPs. With funding secured by DHHS Region VI, CHT collaborated with Sage Words (www.sagewords.org) to conduct a literature review, hold focus group interviews with clients and staff regarding current materials, draft new materials, and conduct usability testing with clients to determine comprehension and ease-of-use. The literature review and analysis of current materials used in clinics found no existing materials meeting clients’ needs. As a result, the Region IV grantees decided to create and test new materials to meet both client and clinician’s needs. These materials are now available for free download with the goal of creating better-informed clients, decreased need for emergency contraception, and reduced unintended pregnancies among users.

Learning Groups

Learning Groups can be used by many different kinds of organizations and agencies to implement a variety of quality improvement changes. Learning Groups bring together multi-disciplinary leadership teams from several clinics/agencies on a regular basis over a period of time to work on a similar topic. This iterative change process grew out of the capacity building work with community-based organizations and health care agencies that we have been doing since 1977. Learning Groups are a highly-effective means to accomplish the systems-level change needed to implement new programs or make major organizational changes.

  • Learning Groups (PDF 279KB) - This white paper describes the rationale and theoretical frameworks underlying the Learning Group approach.
  • Integrating HIV into Family Planning Services (PDF 2.42MB) - This training manual provides agendas, and complete training designs, including learning activities and handouts, for a six-session series. Use them as-is to help agencies integrate HIV prevention services into routine family planning care, or adapt them to any topic that requires systems-wide change.

Minor Consent, Confidentiality, and Reporting Child Sexual Abuse: A Guide for Title X Family Planning Providers

New Region IX Mandated Reporting Guides

An overview of the federal and state medical consent, confidentiality and child abuse reporting laws that apply when adolescents seek family planning services in a Title X funded agency.

Download the California PDF (622KB)

Download the Arizona PDF (505KB)

Download the Nevada PDF (326KB)

Region VI Chlamydia Challenge Newsletter

This is a biannual publication of the DHHS Region VI Infertility Prevention Project. The newsletter, aimed at clinicians, counselors, legislators, STD program administrators, laboratory staff and other public health providers, contains feature articles on issues relating to chlamydia and gonorrhea screening and treatment, at risk populations, counseling, technology and clinical services.

Region VI Infertility Prevention Project Guidelines

Region VI Infertility Prevention Project Guidelines, June 2004, replaces the 1998 version. The following topics are covered: Screening and Treatment, Education and Counseling, Laboratory Staff Education and Training, Lab Slip and Data Collection Instructions and an appendix with gonorrhea treatment recommendations. Additional information about the guidelines or the Region VI Infertility Prevention Project can be obtained by contacting our Austin office.

Download the PDF (PDF 277KB)

Region IX Infertility Prevention Project Chlamydia Clinical Guidelines UPDATED

These February 2009 Guidelines replace the 2003 and 1998 versions. The following topics are covered: laboratory services and testing; history, risk assessment and physical exam; clinical presentation and diagnosis; treatment; follow-up of positive chlamydia test results; reporting procedures; clinic staff education and training; patient/client education and counseling; partner identification and referral; partner assessment and treatment; and outreach activities. It includes as an appendix the Region IX Guidance and Toolkit for the Use of Expedited Partner Therapy and Retesting that is available separately below.

Reproductive Health Discharge Planning for Incarcerated Youth

This report describes a joint Center for Health Training and Region X Office of Family Planning pilot project that used training as a tool for collaboration between juvenile detention centers and community agencies serving youth. The pilot project asked, "Can reproductive health information and services be incorporated into existing discharge planning processes for adolescents being released from juvenile detention centers?" The report describes the implementation of the project, the participants and the training event; evaluates the pilot and process; outlines lessons learned and recommendations for next steps; and summarizes state juvenile correctional systems in Region X.

Download the PDF (PDF 402KB)

Roadmap to Integration: HIV Prevention in Reproductive Health

This manual is a Tool Kit of materials to help family planning and other clinics integrate HIV services. It comprises materials collected from the 10 Regional (Family Planning) Training Centers and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the last five years as part of a collaborative agreement. The notebook is broken into 15 sections that are listed below; one very large pdf below contains all the tabs. There is also a separate PDF for each tab, for easier downloading. (Some of these individual sections may be of slightly lower print quality than the complete large single PDF version.)

Download the complete (very large!) PDF (large PDF: 14 MB)

Staff Development Opportunities—2008

Need ideas for staff training? This resource provides ideas for all staff. Topics are listed by content area, with a description and intended audience. Also included are the 2008 Title X Priorities and Key Issues. Use this resource to complete needs assessment plans, or to come up with staff development ideas throughout the year.

Users: Administrators, staff managers and human resource directors

Download the PDF (PDF 194KB)

Toolkit for Integrating HIV Services in Native Health Settings

This is a new resource for health care providers working with Native communities (or hoping to) who are interested in increasing and integrating HIV-related services. This Toolkit is a collaboration between Center for Health Training in Oakland, CA. and National Native American AIDS Prevention Center in Denver, CO. The notebook is broken into 12 sections that are listed below; one very large pdf below contains all the tabs. There is also a separate PDF for each tab, for easier downloading. (Some of these individual sections may be of slightly lower print quality than the complete large single PDF version.)

Download the complete PDF (6.3 MB)

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Client Satisfaction Made Easy—2004

Client satisfaction surveys can give providers information they need to run their clinics more efficiently and effectively. However, getting accurate input from surveys is difficult, as health care clients are often reluctant to express dissatisfaction. This manual is a step-by-step guide to collecting truly useful client satisfaction data. It includes short, ready-to-use surveys in both English and Spanish, staff training activities, and the latest research on client satisfaction in health care settings.

Users: Administrators, staff responsible for client satisfaction assessment.

Cost: $20

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Do Ask, Do Tell: A Sexuality Training for Reproductive Health Care Staff

If staff don’t ask about sexuality, clients won’t tell. Research shows that many clients want to talk about sexuality but don’t know how to bring it up. If staff are not comfortable initiating the conversation, it perpetuates a code of silence about sexuality, which is a basic and healthy part of being human. Many staff are only comfortable discussing sexuality in the context of disease or pregnancy prevention. However, healthy sexuality includes so much more. It includes, but is not limited to, sex, intimacy, pleasure, gender, gender roles, sexual orientation and reproduction. This training is designed to help build staff comfort discussing sexuality issues more broadly and directly. When staff are comfortable, they are able to do more effective sexual history-taking and risk assessment, which can help clients reduce their risks related to STIs, HIV and unplanned pregnancy. This trainer’s manual includes all of the materials needed to conduct either a four-hour session or four one-hour sessions.

Users: Administrators, managers, educators, and agency trainers.

Cost: $40

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Effective Contraceptive Counseling—ECC

Training Clinicians, Educators and Counselors to Help Clients Use Contraception More Effectively

The Effective Contraceptive Counseling (ECC) model combines expert wisdom and research about all the various pieces of client interventions, particularly research about what is important and useful for serving teens. In addition, the ECC model integrates the personal and cultural context of a client's experience into the counseling and educational approach.

Cost: Complete Curriculum: $75

Includes 3-ring binder with colored dividers, PowerPoint ECC Model Overview along with the training activities, handouts and the extensive literature review.

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Fundamental Skills for Case Managers Working with Teens: A Self-Study Guide—2003

This self-study guide was developed for case managers who work with pregnant/parenting teens and their siblings. Four units cover fundamental skills and information essential for case managers working with this population: (1) Essential Communication Skills; (2) Case Management Challenges; (3) Stages of Development, Adolescents and their Children; (4) Assessments and Action Plans. This guide is intended to be completed on an individual basis with a supervisor's involvement and guidance. Each unit contains activities that include self-reflection exercises, observations, and role plays. Continuing education units are available upon request for BRNs, LCSWs and MFTs. 231 pgs.

  • Unit 1: Essential Communication Skills (63 pgs)
  • Unit 2: Case Management Challenges (81 pgs)
  • Unit 3: Stages of Development, Adolescents and their Children (75 pgs)
  • Unit 4: Assessments and Action Plans (65 pgs)

Users: Case managers, social workers, counselors.

Cost: $50

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Helping Parents Engage: Encouraging Family Involvement with Adolescent's Relationship and Contraceptive Decision Making—2004

Involving parents in their children's health care is a Title X priority. This manual is an excellent resource for training staff in how to involve parents in adolescent's reproductive health care decisions. It contains skill-building activities, tips on connecting with adolescents, information on obtaining community support, and concrete methods for educating and involving parents and other key adults in young people's health care.

Users: Family Planning staff, educators, community leaders

Cost: $30

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Keys to the Staff Development Treasure Chest: How to Unlock the Hidden Gems in your Organization

Your staff is potentially your agency's greatest asset. Good staff development can ensure a knowledgeable staff, prevent problems with clients and co-workers and reduce turnover. This invaluable resource leads you from hiring through orientation, training, motivation and feedback. The manual includes assessments, questionnaires, training activities, and practical suggestions for working with all employees.

Users: Administrators, staff managers and human resource directors

Cost: $25

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Woman to Woman: Inside and Out… A Women's Health Training Manual for Peer Health Educators

While this manual was developed for use by peer educators in a women's prison, educators can readily adapt it for use with professionals and community members, men and women, adults and youth, inmates and free-world participants. Participants will understand more about some of the systems of our bodies — digestive, circulatory, nervous, skin, reproductive, and musculo-skeletal — and how to care for them. Activities and games guarantee to engage participants.

Users: Peer and other health educators

Cost: $35

Bonus: includes trainer's manual with training designs and handouts for an experienced trainer to use with a group of peer educators to help them develop facilitation skills, clarify professional ethics, and practice using Woman to Woman.

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Contraceptive Choices 2007: What Your Clients Need to Know

This updated video provides professional staff with the basic information needed to educate clients about all of their contraceptive options. All currently available methods, including emergency contraception, are presented along with counseling tips. Personal accounts of experiences when using various methods are given by both teens and adults. Ideal for staff new to contraceptive education. Running time 45 minutes.

Cost: $45

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It's Your Choice: Birth Control for Teens

Are most educational videos putting your teens to sleep? This up-to-date fast-paced video is hosted by peer educators who present unbiased information about all current contraceptive methods, including abstinence. It includes interviews with teens giving their honest opinions and sharing their experiences using these methods.

Users: Schools, youth groups, and in-clinic educators.

Running time: 30 minutes

Cost: $60 (Continuous loop version $75)

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Working with Teens: Building Case Management Skills—2003

This video provides four useful scenes of case managers working with adolescents from varied cultural backgrounds. Topics include: conducting the initial interview, building rapport and discussing confidentiality, dealing with disclosure of sexual assault, recruiting new clients, how male staff can interact effectively with female clients, and helping teen girls set boundaries related to sexual activity. Experts in the field provide valuable commentary on each scene. Discussion guide included. Tip: Include this video with your purchase of the above Self-Study Guide and create a valuable training package that will well-prepare your staff.

Users: Case managers, staff educators, counselors

Running time: 50 minutes.

Cost: $50

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Title X: Making a Difference

This video is designed to assist supervisors, clinic managers, program managers and staff trainers to orient staff to the premises and principles, policies and procedures - the full context - of working in family planning. In order to be most effective, staff of family planning clinics need to understand the mission and culture of the organizations where they work, and the history and context of the greater family planning profession. Family planning services focus on many aspects of sexuality and sexual health. Staff bring to the job their own qualms, values, beliefs, myths and misinformation about sexuality and family planning, and may find themselves unprepared to be working in this unique culture. Therefore, a considered and careful orientation is important.

Cost: $30.00

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Effective Contraceptive Counseling-ECC

Training Clinicians, Educators and Counselors to Help Clients Use Contraception More Effectively

No single model for the entire process and content of counseling and educating clients about contraception has been demonstrated by in-depth, peer-reviewed research to facilitate clients' contraceptive efficacy. However, an extensive literature review does support the efficacy of a number of separately studied counseling topics, provider qualities and processes. The Effective Contraceptive Counseling (ECC) model combines expert wisdom and research about all the various pieces of client interventions, particularly research about what is important and useful for serving teens. In addition, the ECC model integrates the personal and cultural context of a client's experience into the counseling and educational approach. The training curriculum, Effective Contraceptive Counseling: Training Clinicians, Educators and Counselors to Help Clients Use Contraception More Effectively, reflects the authors' analyses of research and best practices for improving client contraceptive efficacy.

 

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