Training and Reference Guides for Family Planning Screening Checklists

Family Health International, 2008

The Training and Reference Guides for Family Planning Screening Checklists are a series of four publications designed for program managers, administrators, trainers, and service providers interested in learning how to use the checklists to screen women wishing to initiate use of family planning methods, including combined oral contraceptives (COCs), injectables (DMPA and NET-EN), the copper intrauterine device (IUD), and implants (available soon). A fifth checklist, entitled How to be Reasonable Sure a Client is not Pregnant, enables providers to rule out pregnancy among nonmenstruating women seeking to initiate the contraceptive method of their choice at the time of their visit.

The guides, developed with support from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), are designed to serve as both training and reference tools, as follows.

• As a training tool, each guide provides a four-to-six-hour curriculum for training service providers to use the checklist and a CD-ROM containing key resources needed during the training.

• As a reference tool, each guide provides reference information to supplement the training. This information includes a collection of essential, up-to-date reference materials on the validity, effectiveness, and use of the checklists, recommendations on adapting the checklist to the local context, basic evidence-based information on the specific family planning method, and an annotated bibliography.

The Training and Reference Guides are available in English and French by clicking on the links provided below:

• Training and Reference Guide for a Screening Checklist to Initiate COCs (English – PDF, 662 KB and French – PDF, 945 KB)
• Training and Reference Guide for a Screening Checklist to Initiate DMPA (or NET-EN) (English – PDF, 1.12 MB and French – PDF, 1.42 MB)
• Training and Reference Guide for a Screening Checklist to Initiate Use of the Copper IUD (English – PDF, 851 KB and French – PDF, 1.11 MB)
• Training and Reference Guide for a Screening Checklist to Identify Women Who are Not Pregnant (English – PDF, 485 KB and French – PDF, 783 KB)
• Training and Reference Guide for a Screening Checklist to Initiate Use of Implants (available soon)