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FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES
CHA offers free
Family Planning services in several primary care and women's health
sites across our health care network (see list of sites at right).
This includes locations in Cambridge, Everett, Revere, and Somerville,
MA.
You do not need
to be a CHA patient to access Family Planning services at any of
our sites.
How We Can Help
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Reproductive Health Counseling
-
Community Education
- Youth Development
One-on-one services
provide expert health information in a safe, confidential manner.
People can come to us to discuss a wide range of reproductive health
issues, from birth control to HIV/AIDS counseling and testing, in
many Boston-area locations.
Health Counselors
complement other primary care services found at our sites. Health
Counselors can often spend more time with patients to give detailed
information, offer testing, and answer questions.
Our staff are
knowledgeable and non-judgmental. Visits are free and can be conducted
in many different languages.
Services include,
but are not limited to the following:
- Birth control/protection
methods
- Pregnancy
testing and options counseling
- HIV counseling
and testing
- Sexually
transmitted infection - education and testing
- Healthy relationships
- Puberty &
menstruation
- Fertility
awareness
- Emergency
contraception
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Health Educators
collaborate with schools, parents, community organizations, health
care settings, etc. to provide free health workshops for people
of any age. Trained and certified Health Education staff provide
age-appropriate classes and workshops in a variety of formats, ranging
from single-sessions to a semester-long series, and vary in length
to meet the needs of the audience.
Education is
provided within various venues such as community fairs, parent-teacher
meetings, in-school classes for grades 4 through college level,
staff training/in-services, and in community youth serving agencies.
Health topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Anatomy/Physiology
- Sexually
Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS
- Pregnancy
and Parenting Issues
- Pregnancy
Prevention
- Abstinence
- Protection
Methods/ Contraception
- Healthy Relationships/
Dating Violence
- Puberty
- Adolescent
Development
- Communication/
Talking to Parents/ Talking to Teens
- Self-Esteem
- Decision-Making
- Sexuality/
Stereotyping/ Homophobia
- Primary Health
Care/ Reproductive Health Care
- Teen Health
Centers: Access and Available Resources
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The Family Planning
team facilitates school-based youth development programs at both
Somerville and Everett High Schools.
- Teen Health
Advisory
Teen Health Advisory is an after-school peer-leadership program
at both Somerville and Everett High Schools. Groups are guided
by Health Educators, and focus on peer-led education, where teens
pick monthly health topics. Teens coordinate bulletin boards and
cafeteria information tables, as well as contests and fundraisers.
Groups meet weekly.
- C.O.P.E.
(Co-Operative Parenting Education) program
COPE is an educational program for pregnant and parenting students
in Somerville. This credit program supports teens through pregnancy
and parenthood with case management, tutoring, support groups,
education, and advocacy, with the ultimate goal of helping teen
parents graduate. The C.O.P.E. office is at the High School and
monthly workshops are provided on topics such as newborn care,
nutrition, financial assistance, self-esteem, relationships, etc.
For more information, please contact the C.O.P.E. Educator at
617-625-6600 x6156.
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(Empowering Youth in our Community)
EYC is a youth development program with a focus on community service
learning that is based at Everett High School. Students meet weekly
to earn credit for this year-long health elective about self awareness
and healthy living, and choose a community project to work on
as a group. The program is based on a combination of science-based
curriculum and service learning as preventive methods, and is
evaluated to prevent teen pregnancy and reduce school drop out
and course failure. Additional (separate) component reaches out
to younger high risk youth in area middle schools, and community
organizations with comprehensive health education.
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