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Services
Medical Services
Family Planning offers the following services:
- Women’s annual preventative examinations (Pap Smears)
- Birth control method counseling and dispensing for women and men
- Birth control pills, condoms, Implanon, IUD insertion, Depo injections
- Screening and treatment for sexually transmitted disease/infection for women and men
- Educational counseling regarding risk reduction for women and men
- Pregnancy testing and pregnancy options counseling
- Other treatments relating to women’s reproductive health issues
Education Programs
Girl Talk
girls 9-11 years old and their mom, grandmother, aunt, foster mom or female guardian
“Girl Talk” is a place for moms and their daughters to come together and chat about stuff like
menstruation, dating, how to be safe and have questions about sexuality answered. Moms and their
daughters get to choose when to meet...who will be there and what they discuss! Everyone learns
and it’s fun too!!
What are some of the topics we can discuss?
 Puberty
Emotions and Hormones
Menstrual Cycle
Body Image
Self-Esteem...self respect...self confidence
Life Skills...how to handle peer pres-sure...relationships...defining your values
The availability of medically accurate information for parent and adolescents regarding sexuality
Program Objectives
- To debunk fears and myths about menstruation and puberty
- To share positive feelings about puberty, menstruation and gender
- To encourage healthy body image
- To discuss peer pressure and media influences
- To discuss safety issues, changing relationships and setting healthy limits
- To facilitate discussion of family and cultural values
- To develop decision making skills
- To dispel the myth that talking about sex and sexuality leads to early sexual activity among adolescents
2010 Classes are forming now!
3 Ways to learn more!
Email us at outreach@fpchelandouglas.org
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Call 662-2013 mention “Girl Talk”
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Return the form on the printable brochure.
Healthy Relationships
9-12 grades; adults
This is an overview of the qualities of healthy and unhealthy personal relationships; healthy
sexual relationships; what to think about before becoming sexually active, including age of
consent issues.
Bloodborne Pathogens
HIV/Hepatitis B & C- adults
This is a basic overview of HIV/Hepatitis B & C for adults with no or little medical background,
including definition of bloodborne pathogens, transmission, and reducing your risk.
Birth Control Methods
7/8 grades; 9-12 grades; adults
Sex…nobody wants to talk about it, but everybody is thinking about it! This presentation covers why
learn about birth control, encourages students to talk to their family or a trusted adult about
values and beliefs regarding sexuality, US pregnancy statistics, menstrual cycle review, birth
control methods, including abstinence, effectiveness of those methods, and ways to respond to
sexual pressure. Questions are encouraged, with an emphasis on dispelling myths and misconceptions
about sexuality and birth control.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases/HIV
7/8 grades; 9-12 grades; adults
This is an overview of common sexually transmitted diseases/infections, including HIV. Prevention
and safer sex practices, including abstinence, symptoms, and transmission is discussed. Questions
are encouraged, with an emphasis on dispelling myths and misconceptions about sexually transmitted
diseases/infections, including HIV.
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